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COCOA
2008
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Polynomial Time Approximation Scheme for Connected Vertex Cover in Unit Disk Graph
Connected Vertex Cover Problem (CVC) is an NP-hard problem. The currently best known approximation algorithm for CVC has performance ration 2. This paper gives the first Polynomial...
Zhao Zhang, Xiaofeng Gao, Weili Wu
COCOON
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
A Three-String Approach to the Closest String Problem
Given a set of n strings of length L and a radius d, the closest string problem (CSP for short) asks for a string tsol that is within a Hamming distance of d to each of the given ...
Zhi-Zhong Chen, Bin Ma, Lusheng Wang
RECOMB
1997
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
A more efficient approximation scheme for tree alignment
We present a new polynomial time approximation scheme (PTAS) for tree alignment, which is an important variant of multiple sequence alignment. As in the existing PTASs in the liter...
Lusheng Wang, Tao Jiang, Dan Gusfield
SWAT
2010
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
A Weakly Robust PTAS for Minimum Clique Partition in Unit Disk Graphs
We consider the problem of partitioning the set of vertices of a given unit disk graph (UDG) into a minimum number of cliques. The problem is NP-hard and various constant factor a...
Imran A. Pirwani, Mohammad R. Salavatipour
FSTTCS
2003
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
An Improved Approximation Scheme for Computing Arrow-Debreu Prices for the Linear Case
Recently, Jain, Mahdian and Saberi [5] had given a FPTAS for the problem of computing a market equilibrium in the Arrow-Debreu setting, when the utilities are linear functions. The...
Nikhil R. Devanur, Vijay V. Vazirani
FCT
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Complexity of Approximating Closest Substring Problems
The closest substring problem, where a short string is sought that minimizes the number of mismatches between it and each of a given set of strings, is a minimization problem with ...
Patricia A. Evans, Andrew D. Smith
COCOON
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A PTAS for a Disc Covering Problem Using Width-Bounded Separators
In this paper, we study the following disc covering problem: Given a set of discs of various radii on the plane, find a subset of discs to maximize the area covered by exactly on...
Zhixiang Chen, Bin Fu, Yong Tang, Binhai Zhu
APPROX
2005
Springer
131views Algorithms» more  APPROX 2005»
13 years 9 months ago
Approximation Schemes for Node-Weighted Geometric Steiner Tree Problems
Abstract. In this paper we introduce a new technique for approximation schemes for geometrical optimization problems. As an example problem, we consider the following variant of th...
Jan Remy, Angelika Steger
STOC
2005
ACM
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13 years 9 months ago
On strip packing With rotations
We present an asymptotic fully polynomial time approximation scheme for two-dimensional strip packing with rotations. In this problem, a set of rectangles need to be packed into a...
Klaus Jansen, Rob van Stee
APPROX
2009
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
An Approximation Scheme for Terrain Guarding
We obtain a polynomial time approximation scheme for the terrain guarding problem improving upon several recent constant factor approximations. Our algorithm is a local search algo...
Matt Gibson, Gaurav Kanade, Erik Krohn, Kasturi R....