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STOC
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
2009
ACM
This paper studies constant-time approximation algorithms for problems on degree-bounded graphs. Let n and d be the number of vertices and the degree bound, respectively. This pap...
CEC
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2007
IEEE
Abstract—Hybrid methods are very popular for solving problems from combinatorial optimization. In contrast to this the theoretical understanding of the interplay of different opt...
CORR
2004
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
2004
Springer
Abstract. The phylogenetic tree construction is to infer the evolutionary relationship between species from the experimental data. However, the experimental data are often imperfec...
SODA
2008
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2008
ACM
Local ratio is a well-known paradigm for designing approximation algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems. At a very high level, a local-ratio algorithm first decomposes ...
WINE
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2009
Springer
We propose approximation algorithms under game-theoretic considerations. We indroduce and study the general covering problem which is a natural generalization of the well-studied m...