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CSR
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Ruling Out Polynomial-Time Approximation Schemes for Hard Constraint Satisfaction Problems
The maximum constraint satisfaction problem (Max CSP) is the following computational problem: an instance is a finite collection of constraints on a set of variables, and the goal...
Peter Jonsson, Andrei A. Krokhin, Fredrik Kuivinen
WINE
2005
Springer
122views Economy» more  WINE 2005»
14 years 3 months ago
Walrasian Equilibrium: Hardness, Approximations and Tractable Instances
We study the complexity issues for Walrasian equilibrium in a special case of combinatorial auction, called single-minded auction, in which every participant is interested in only ...
Ning Chen, Atri Rudra
CC
2002
Springer
126views System Software» more  CC 2002»
13 years 9 months ago
On the hardness of approximating the permanent of structured matrices
We show that for several natural classes of "structured" matrices, including symmetric, circulant, Hankel and Toeplitz matrices, approximating the permanent modulo a prim...
Bruno Codenotti, Igor Shparlinski, Arne Winterhof
FOCS
1999
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Hardness of Approximating the Minimum Distance of a Linear Code
We show that the minimum distance of a linear code is not approximable to within any constant factor in random polynomial time (RP), unless nondeterministic polynomial time (NP) eq...
Ilya Dumer, Daniele Micciancio, Madhu Sudan
PODS
2007
ACM
203views Database» more  PODS 2007»
14 years 10 months ago
Decision trees for entity identification: approximation algorithms and hardness results
We consider the problem of constructing decision trees for entity identification from a given relational table. The input is a table containing information about a set of entities...
Venkatesan T. Chakaravarthy, Vinayaka Pandit, Samb...