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STOC
2012
ACM
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13 years 4 days ago
Nearly optimal solutions for the chow parameters problem and low-weight approximation of halfspaces
The Chow parameters of a Boolean function f : {−1, 1}n → {−1, 1} are its n + 1 degree-0 and degree-1 Fourier coefficients. It has been known since 1961 [Cho61, Tan61] that ...
Anindya De, Ilias Diakonikolas, Vitaly Feldman, Ro...
NETWORKS
2006
14 years 9 months ago
Lower bounds for the relative greedy algorithm for approximating Steiner trees
Abstract. The Steiner tree problem is to find a shortest subgraph that spans a given set of vertices in a graph. This problem is known to be NP-hard and it is well known that a pol...
Stefan Hougardy, Stefan Kirchner
SODA
1992
ACM
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14 years 11 months ago
A General Approximation Technique for Constrained Forest Problems
We present a general approximation technique for a large class of graph problems. Our technique mostly applies to problems of covering, at minimum cost, the vertices of a graph wit...
Michel X. Goemans, David P. Williamson
IFIPTCS
2010
14 years 7 months ago
Approximating the Non-contiguous Multiple Organization Packing Problem
We present in this paper a 5/2-approximation algorithm for scheduling rigid jobs on multi-organizations. For a given set of n jobs, the goal is to construct a schedule for N organi...
Marin Bougeret, Pierre-François Dutot, Klau...
ECCC
2007
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14 years 9 months ago
On Parameterized Approximability
Abstract. Combining classical approximability questions with parameterized complexity, we introduce a theory of parameterized approximability. The main intention of this theory is ...
Yijia Chen, Martin Grohe, Magdalena Grüber