• DocumentCode
    120705
  • Title

    Finding nearest facility for multiple customers using voronoi diagram

  • Author

    Agarwal, Rohit ; Garg, Deepak

  • Author_Institution
    Comput. Sci. & Eng. Dept., Thapar Univ., Patiala, India
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    21-22 Feb. 2014
  • Firstpage
    641
  • Lastpage
    646
  • Abstract
    Searching for a facility near to many customers is such a problem that even an approximately correct answer can save lot of labor, time and money. A possible solution for decision makers to reach facility approximately nearer to all customers has been discussed. It took time of order O(n log n) as it is based on voronoi diagram of order O(n log n) and its own time is of linear order. The proposed algorithm tackled the problem of finding the nearest facility for multiple customers by considering two criteria. The first one was minimizing the aggregate distances i.e. sum of total distances covered by all the customers. The second one was minimizing the maximum difference i.e. the difference between the farthest customer and the nearest customer. The approach given here has used Plane sweep algorithm or Fortune´s algorithm for voronoi diagram construction algorithm as its base algorithm because it is one the most efficient algorithm known for computing voronoi diagram.
  • Keywords
    computational complexity; computational geometry; decision making; facility location; minimisation; Fortune´s algorithm; O(n log n) time complexity; Plane sweep algorithm; Voronoi diagram; aggregate distance minimization; decision making; farthest customer-nearest customer difference; maximum difference minimization; multiple customers; nearest-facility location; total distances; Aggregates; Algorithm design and analysis; Carbon dioxide; Cities and towns; Companies; Complexity theory; Conferences; Plane sweep or Fortune´s algorithm; facility location; voronoi diagram;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Advance Computing Conference (IACC), 2014 IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    Gurgaon
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-2571-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IAdCC.2014.6779399
  • Filename
    6779399