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DAM
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Approximating the minimum clique cover and other hard problems in subtree filament graphs
Subtree filament graphs are the intersection graphs of subtree filaments in a tree. This class of graphs contains subtree overlap graphs, interval filament graphs, chordal graphs,...
J. Mark Keil, Lorna Stewart
COCO
2008
Springer
88views Algorithms» more  COCO 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
Approximation of Natural W[P]-Complete Minimisation Problems Is Hard
We prove that the weighted monotone circuit satisfiability problem has no fixed-parameter tractable approximation algorithm with constant or polylogarithmic approximation ratio un...
Kord Eickmeyer, Martin Grohe, Magdalena Grübe...
COCO
2005
Springer
131views Algorithms» more  COCO 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
On the Hardness of Approximating Multicut and Sparsest-Cut
We show that the Multicut, Sparsest-Cut, and Min-2CNF≡ Deletion problems are NP-hard to approximate within every constant factor, assuming the Unique Games Conjecture of Khot [S...
Shuchi Chawla, Robert Krauthgamer, Ravi Kumar, Yuv...
ICAC
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Hardness of Approximation and Greedy Algorithms for the Adaptation Problem in Virtual Environments
— Over the past decade, wide-area distributed computing has emerged as a powerful computing paradigm. Virtual machines greatly simplify wide-area distributed computing ing the ab...
Ananth I. Sundararaj, Manan Sanghi, John R. Lange,...
COCO
1994
Springer
140views Algorithms» more  COCO 1994»
13 years 11 months ago
Random Debaters and the Hardness of Approximating Stochastic Functions
A probabilistically checkable debate system (PCDS) for a language L consists of a probabilisticpolynomial-time veri er V and a debate between Player 1, who claims that the input x ...
Anne Condon, Joan Feigenbaum, Carsten Lund, Peter ...