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Cycle Cover with Short Cycles

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Cycle Cover with Short Cycles
Cycle covering is a well-studied problem in computer science. In this paper, we develop approximation algorithms for variants of cycle covering problems which bound the size and/or length of the covering cycles. In particular, we give a ´½ · ÐÒ¾µ-approximation for the lane covering problem [4, 5] in weighted graphs with metric lengths on the edges and an Ç´ÐÒ µ approximation for the bounded cycle cover problem [11] with cycle-size bound in uniform graphs. Our techniques are based on interpreting a greedy algorithm (proposed and empirically evaluated by Ergun et al. [4, 5]) as a dual-fitting algorithm. We then find the approximation factor by bounding the solution of a factor-revealing non-linear program. These are the first non-trivial approximation algorithms for these problems. We show that our analysis is tight for the greedy algorithm, and change the process of the dual-fitting algorithm to improve the factor for small cycle bounds. Finally, we prove that variants ...
Nicole Immorlica, Mohammad Mahdian, Vahab S. Mirro
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Type Conference
Year 2005
Where STACS
Authors Nicole Immorlica, Mohammad Mahdian, Vahab S. Mirrokni
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