Lundi 9 décembre 2019, 14h, en salle P521
Abstract :
We investigate a variant of the so-called INTERNET SHOPPING problem introduced
by Blazewicz et al. in 2010, where a customer wants to buy a list of products at the
lowest possible total cost from shops which offer discounts when purchases exceed
a certain threshold. Although the problem is NP-hard, we provide exact algorithms
for several cases, e.g. when each shop sells only two items, and an FPT algorithm
for the number of items, or for the number of shops when all prices are equal. We
complement each result with hardness proofs in order to draw a tight boundary
between tractable and intractable cases. Finally, we give an approximation algorithm
and hardness results for the problem of maximising the sum of discounts.