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Approximation algorithms for facility location problems (extended abstract)
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El Paso, Texas, United States
Pages: 265 - 274  
Year of Publication: 1997
ISBN:0-89791-888-6
Authors
David B. Shmoys  Schoolof Operations Research & Industrial Engineering and Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Éva Tardos  Department of Computer Science and School of Operations Research & Industrial Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Karen Aardal  Department of Computer Science, Utrecht, University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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SIGACT: ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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