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CORR
2002
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
2002
Springer
In this paper we study approximation algorithms for solving a general covering integer program. An
SIAMCOMP
1998
13 years 4 months ago
1998
We build on the classical greedy sequential set cover algorithm, in the spirit of the primal-dual schema, to obtain simple parallel approximation algorithms for the set cover probl...
MP
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
Consider a 0/1 integer program min{cT x : Ax b, x {0, 1}n } where A is nonnegative. We show that if the number of minimal covers of Ax b is polynomially bounded, then there is ...
PODC
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
The paper presents distributed and parallel -approximation algorithms for covering problems, where is the maximum number of variables on which any constraint depends (for example...
FOCS
1995
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
1995
IEEE
This paper continues the investigation of the connection between probabilistically checkable proofs PCPs the approximability of NP-optimization problems. The emphasis is on prov...