1. CAPACITY CONSTRAINED NETWORK VORONOI DIAGRAM (CCNVD)
Presented by:
GROUP 7
Gayathri Gandhamuneni &
Yumeng Wang

2. AGENDA Synonyms Definition Historical Background
Scientific Fundamentals
Key Applications
Future Direction & References

3. SYNONYMS
CCNVD – None
Voronoi Diagram - Voronoi tessellation, a Voronoi decomposition, a Voronoi partition, or a Dirichlet tessellation

4. FORMAL DEFINITION
Capacity Constrained Network Voronoi Diagram (CCNVD):
Partitions graph into set of contiguous service areas that honor service center capacities and minimize the sum of distances from graph-nodes allotted service centers.

5. SIGNIFICANCE & APPLICATIONS
Critical Societal applications
Examples:
Assigning consumers to gas stations in the aftermath of a disaster
Assigning evacuees to shelters
Assigning patients to hospitals
Assigning students to school districts
CCNVD
Finite Spaces
Continuous Spaces
References for CCNVD in Finite Spaces and Continuous Spaces – Not discussing due to time constraint

6. PROBLEM STATEMENT Input: Objective: Constraints: Output:
A transportation network G – (Nodes N, Edges E)
Set of service centers
Constraints on the service centers
Real weights on the edges.
Objective:
Minimize the sum of distances from graph-nodes to their allotted service centers while satisfying the constraints of the network.
Constraints:
Nodes - Assumed to be contiguous
The effective paths can be calculated (maximum coverage and shortest paths)
Output:
Capacity Constrained Network Voronoi Diagram (CCNVD)

7. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
Voronoi Diagram:
Way of dividing space into a number of regions
A set of points (called seeds, sites, or generators) is specified beforehand
For each seed, there will be a corresponding region consisting of all points closer to that seed than to any other
Regions are called “Voronoi cells”
One of the early applications of Voronoi diagrams was implemented by John Snow to study the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak in Soho, England. He showed the correlation between areas on the map of London using a particular water pump, and the areas with most deaths due to the outbreak.

8. RELATED WORK
Minimizing sum of distances between graph nodes and their allotted service centers
Honoring service center capacity constraints
Service Area Contiguity
Min-cost flow approaches
CCNVD
Network Voronoi Diagrams (NVD)

9. RELATED WORK ILLUSTRATION WITH DIAGRAMS
Every edge is associated with a distance (e.g., travel time), Every graph-node has unit demand.
Every service center has a capacity to serve 5 graph units.
NVD allots every graph-node to the nearest service center – No account for load balance, which may lead to congestion and delay at service centers
Input
NVD

10. RELATED WORK ILLUSTRATION WITH DIAGRAMS
Min-cost flow: minimizes the sum of distances from graph-nodes to their allotted service centers. Although it achieves its goal (min-sum), service areas for Y and Z violate SA contiguity.
CCNVD: load is balanced, service areas are contiguous for all service centers.
Min-Cost Flow without SA contiguity
(min-sum=30)(Output)
CCNVD (min-sum=30) (Output) – Pressure Equalizer Approach

11. CHALLENGES Large size of the transportation network
Uneven distribution - Service centers & Customers
Constraint:
Service areas must be contiguous in graph to simplify communication of allotments
NP Hard

12. FUTURE DIRECTION More factors of the problem into account
Factors related to capacity of service centers,
Example:
Number and distance of neighboring nodes
Service quality of the service center.
Factors related to weight of each node
Number of consumers
The level of importance

13. REFERENCES
[1] KwangSoo Yang, Apurv Hirsh Shekhar, Dev Oliver, Shashi Shekhar: Capacity-Constrained Network-Voronoi Diagram: A Summary of Results. SSTD 2013: [2] Advances in Spatial and Temporal Databases - 13th International Symposium, SSTD 2013 Munich, Germany, August 2013 Proceedings [3] [4] Ahuja, R., Magnanti, T., Orlin, J.: Network flows: theory, algorithms, and applications, Prentice Hall [5] Goldberg, A.V., Tarjan, R.E.: Finding minimum-cost circulations by successive approximation. Mathematics of Operations Research 15(3), 430–466 (1990) [6] Klein, M.: A primal method for minimal cost flows with applications to the assignment and transportation problems. Management Science 14(3), 205–220 (1967) [7] Erwig, M.: The graph voronoi diagram with applications. Networks 36(3), 156–163 (2000) [8] Okabe, A., Satoh, T., Furuta, T., Suzuki, A., Okano, K.: Generalized network voronoi diagrams: Concepts, computational methods, and applications. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 22(9), 965–994 (2008)

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