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ECCC
2006
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How to rank with few errors: A PTAS for Weighted Feedback Arc Set on Tournaments
Suppose you ran a chess tournament, everybody played everybody, and you wanted to use the results to rank everybody. Unless you were really lucky, the results would not be acyclic...
Claire Kenyon-Mathieu, Warren Schudy
STOC
2007
ACM
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14 years 11 months ago
How to rank with few errors
We present a polynomial time approximation scheme (PTAS) for the minimum feedback arc set problem on tournaments. A simple weighted generalization gives a PTAS for KemenyYoung ran...
Claire Kenyon-Mathieu, Warren Schudy