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SODA
2010
ACM
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15 years 7 months ago
Amplified Hardness of Approximation for VCG-Based Mechanisms
If a two-player social welfare maximization problem does not admit a PTAS, we prove that any maximal-in-range truthful mechanism that runs in polynomial time cannot achieve an app...
Shaddin Dughmi, Hu Fu, Robert Kleinberg
STOC
2010
ACM
261views Algorithms» more  STOC 2010»
15 years 2 months ago
An Improved LP-based Approximation for Steiner Tree
The Steiner tree problem is one of the most fundamental ÆÈ-hard problems: given a weighted undirected graph and a subset of terminal nodes, find a minimum weight tree spanning ...
Jaroslaw Byrka, Fabrizio Grandoni, Thomas Rothvoss...
FOCS
1995
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Free Bits, PCPs and Non-Approximability - Towards Tight Results
This paper continues the investigation of the connection between probabilistically checkable proofs PCPs the approximability of NP-optimization problems. The emphasis is on prov...
Mihir Bellare, Oded Goldreich, Madhu Sudan
FOCS
2004
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
An Approximate Max-Steiner-Tree-Packing Min-Steiner-Cut Theorem
Given an undirected multigraph G and a subset of vertices S V (G), the STEINER TREE PACKING problem is to find a largest collection of edge-disjoint trees that each connects S. T...
Lap Chi Lau
FSTTCS
2007
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Order Scheduling Models: Hardness and Algorithms
We consider scheduling problems in which a job consists of components of different types to be processed on m machines. Each machine is capable of processing components of a singl...
Naveen Garg, Amit Kumar, Vinayaka Pandit