A bicriteria algorithm for the minimum submodular cost partial set multi-cover problem

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Abstract: This paper studies randomized approximation algorithm for a variant of the set cover problem called minimum submodular cost partial multi-cover (SCPMC), in which each element e has a covering requirement re and a profit pe, and the cost function on sub-collection of sets is submodular, the goal is to find a minimum cost sub-collection of sets which fully covers at least q-percentage of total profit, where an element e is fully covered by sub-collection S′ if and only if it belongs to at least re sets of mathcalS′. Previous work shows that such a combination enormously increases the difficulty of studies, even when the cost function is linear. In this paper, assuming that the maximum covering requirement rmax=maxere is a constant and the cost function is nonnegative, monotone nondecreasing, and submodular, we give the first randomized bicriteria algorithm for SCPMC the output of which fully covers at least (q−varepsilon)-percentage of all elements and the performance ratio is O(b/varepsilon) with a high probability, where and f is the maximum number of sets containing a common element. The algorithm is based on a novel non-linear program. Furthermore, in the case when the covering requirement requiv1, a bicriteria O(f/varepsilon)-approximation can be achieved even when monotonicity requirement is dropped off from the cost function.




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