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STOC
2007
ACM
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15 years 10 months ago
Playing games with approximation algorithms
In an online linear optimization problem, on each period t, an online algorithm chooses st S from a fixed (possibly infinite) set S of feasible decisions. Nature (who may be adve...
Sham M. Kakade, Adam Tauman Kalai, Katrina Ligett
APPROX
2008
Springer
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14 years 11 months ago
Approximating Single Machine Scheduling with Scenarios
In the field of robust optimization, the goal is to provide solutions to combinatorial problems that hedge against variations of the numerical parameters. This constitutes an effor...
Monaldo Mastrolilli, Nikolaus Mutsanas, Ola Svenss...
SWAT
2010
Springer
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15 years 2 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
FOCS
1999
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
The Directed Steiner Network Problem is Tractable for a Constant Number of Terminals
We consider the DIRECTED STEINER NETWORK problem, also called the POINT-TO-POINT CONNECTION problem, where given a directed graph G and p pairs {(s1,t1),...,(sp,tp)} of nodes in t...
Jon Feldman, Matthias Ruhl
IPL
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
The online Prize-Collecting Traveling Salesman Problem
We study the online version of the Prize-Collecting Traveling Salesman Problem (PCTSP), a generalization of the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP). In the TSP, the salesman has to v...
Giorgio Ausiello, Vincenzo Bonifaci, Luigi Laura