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DAM
2006
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15 years 1 months ago
Approximating the minimum clique cover and other hard problems in subtree filament graphs
Subtree filament graphs are the intersection graphs of subtree filaments in a tree. This class of graphs contains subtree overlap graphs, interval filament graphs, chordal graphs,...
J. Mark Keil, Lorna Stewart
COCO
2008
Springer
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15 years 3 months ago
Approximation of Natural W[P]-Complete Minimisation Problems Is Hard
We prove that the weighted monotone circuit satisfiability problem has no fixed-parameter tractable approximation algorithm with constant or polylogarithmic approximation ratio un...
Kord Eickmeyer, Martin Grohe, Magdalena Grübe...
COCO
2005
Springer
131views Algorithms» more  COCO 2005»
15 years 7 months ago
On the Hardness of Approximating Multicut and Sparsest-Cut
We show that the Multicut, Sparsest-Cut, and Min-2CNF≡ Deletion problems are NP-hard to approximate within every constant factor, assuming the Unique Games Conjecture of Khot [S...
Shuchi Chawla, Robert Krauthgamer, Ravi Kumar, Yuv...
ICAC
2006
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Hardness of Approximation and Greedy Algorithms for the Adaptation Problem in Virtual Environments
— Over the past decade, wide-area distributed computing has emerged as a powerful computing paradigm. Virtual machines greatly simplify wide-area distributed computing ing the ab...
Ananth I. Sundararaj, Manan Sanghi, John R. Lange,...
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COCO
1994
Springer
140views Algorithms» more  COCO 1994»
15 years 6 months ago
Random Debaters and the Hardness of Approximating Stochastic Functions
A probabilistically checkable debate system (PCDS) for a language L consists of a probabilisticpolynomial-time veri er V and a debate between Player 1, who claims that the input x ...
Anne Condon, Joan Feigenbaum, Carsten Lund, Peter ...