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FSTTCS
2001
Springer
14 years 17 hour ago
Semidefinite Programming Based Approximation Algorithms
Semidefinite programming based approximation algorithms, such as the Goemans and Williamson approximation algorithm for the MAX CUT problem, are usually shown to have certain perf...
Uri Zwick
SIAMCOMP
1998
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13 years 7 months ago
Free Bits, PCPs, and Nonapproximability-Towards Tight Results
This paper continues the investigation of the connection between probabilistically checkable proofs (PCPs) and the approximability of NP-optimization problems. The emphasis is on p...
Mihir Bellare, Oded Goldreich, Madhu Sudan
RANDOM
1998
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Using Approximation Hardness to Achieve Dependable Computation
Abstract. Redundancy has been utilized to achieve fault tolerant computation and to achieve reliable communication in networks of processors. These techniques can only be extended ...
Mike Burmester, Yvo Desmedt, Yongge Wang
CORR
2011
Springer
167views Education» more  CORR 2011»
13 years 2 months ago
On Quadratic Programming with a Ratio Objective
Quadratic Programming (QP) is the well-studied problem of maximizing over {−1, 1} values the quadratic form i=j aijxixj. QP captures many known combinatorial optimization proble...
Aditya Bhaskara, Moses Charikar, Rajsekar Manokara...
ISAAC
1992
Springer
132views Algorithms» more  ISAAC 1992»
13 years 11 months ago
Generalized Assignment Problems
In the multilevel generalized assignment problem (MGAP) agents can perform tasks at more than one efficiency level. Important manufacturing problems, such as lot sizing, can be ea...
Silvano Martello, Paolo Toth