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COCO
2008
Springer
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13 years 10 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...
DAM
2006
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13 years 8 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
JCO
2007
128views more  JCO 2007»
13 years 8 months ago
Approximation algorithms and hardness results for labeled connectivity problems
Let G = (V, E) be a connected multigraph, whose edges are associated with labels specified by an integer-valued function L : E → N. In addition, each label ℓ ∈ N has a non-...
Refael Hassin, Jérôme Monnot, Danny S...
ICAC
2006
IEEE
14 years 2 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,...
ISAAC
2004
Springer
106views Algorithms» more  ISAAC 2004»
14 years 1 months ago
Minimum Common String Partition Problem: Hardness and Approximations
String comparison is a fundamental problem in computer science, with applications in areas such as computational biology, text processing or compression. In this paper we address t...
Avraham Goldstein, Petr Kolman, Jie Zheng