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Consider an online facility assignment problem where a set of facilities $F = { f_1, f_2, f_3, cdots, f_{|F|} }$ of equal capacity $l$ is situated on a metric space and customers arrive one by one in an online manner on that space. We assign a customer $c_i$ to a facility $f_j$ before a new customer $c_{i+1}$ arrives. The cost of this assignment is the distance between $c_i$ and $f_j$. The objective of this problem is to minimize the sum of all assignment costs. Recently Ahmed et al. (TCS, 806, pp. 455-467, 2020) studied the problem where the facilities are situated on a line and computed competitive ratio of Algorithm Greedy which assigns the customer to the nearest available facility. They computed competitive ratio of algorithm named Algorithm Optimal-Fill which assigns the new customer considering optimal assignment of all previous customers. They also studied the problem where the facilities are situated on a connected unweighted graph. In this paper we first consider that $F$ is situated on the vertices of a connected unweighted grid graph $G$ of size $r times c$ and customers arrive one by one having positions on the vertices of $G$. We show that Algorithm Greedy has competitive ratio $r times c + r + c$ and Algorithm Optimal-Fill has competitive ratio $O(r times c)$. We later show that the competitive ratio of Algorithm Optimal-Fill is $2|F|$ for any arbitrary graph. Our bound is tight and better than the previous result. We also consider the facilities are distributed arbitrarily on a plane and provide an algorithm for the scenario. We also provide an algorithm that has competitive ratio $(2n-1)$. Finally, we consider a straight line metric space and show that no algorithm for the online facility assignment problem has competitive ratio less than $9.001$.
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