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COCOA
2008
Springer
14 years 11 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
DAM
2006
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14 years 9 months ago
Hybrid rounding techniques for knapsack problems
We address the classical knapsack problem and a variant in which an upper bound is imposed on the number of items that can be selected. We show that appropriate combinations of ro...
Monaldo Mastrolilli, Marcus Hutter
FCT
2003
Springer
15 years 2 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
COMGEO
2010
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Approximation algorithm for the kinetic robust K-center problem
Clustering is an important problem and has numerous applications. In this paper we consider an important clustering problem, called the k-center problem. We are given a discrete p...
Sorelle A. Friedler, David M. Mount
ESA
2009
Springer
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15 years 2 months ago
Clustering-Based Bidding Languages for Sponsored Search
Sponsored search auctions provide a marketplace where advertisers can bid for millions of advertising opportunities to promote their products. The main difficulty facing the adver...
Mohammad Mahdian, Grant Wang