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ESA
2006
Springer
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14 years 15 days ago
A Unified Approach to Approximating Partial Covering Problems
An instance of the generalized partial cover problem consists of a ground set U and a family of subsets S 2U . Each element e U is associated with a profit p(e), whereas each su...
Jochen Könemann, Ojas Parekh, Danny Segev
FOCS
2006
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Approximation algorithms for allocation problems: Improving the factor of 1 - 1/e
Combinatorial allocation problems require allocating items to players in a way that maximizes the total utility. Two such problems received attention recently, and were addressed ...
Uriel Feige, Jan Vondrák
STACS
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Polynomial-Time Approximation Schemes for Subset-Connectivity Problems in Bounded-Genus Graphs
We present the first polynomial-time approximation schemes (PTASes) for the following subset-connectivity problems in edge-weighted graphs of bounded genus: Steiner tree, low-conn...
Glencora Borradaile, Erik D. Demaine, Siamak Tazar...
SODA
2008
ACM
122views Algorithms» more  SODA 2008»
13 years 10 months ago
Fast approximation of the permanent for very dense problems
Approximation of the permanent of a matrix with nonnegative entries is a well studied problem. The most successful approach to date for general matrices uses Markov chains to appr...
Mark Huber, Jenny Law
CATS
2006
13 years 10 months ago
On the Approximability of Maximum and Minimum Edge Clique Partition Problems
We consider the following clustering problems: given a general undirected graph, partition its vertices into disjoint clusters such that each cluster forms a clique and the number...
Anders Dessmark, Jesper Jansson, Andrzej Lingas, E...