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CC
2006
Springer
123views System Software» more  CC 2006»
14 years 9 months ago
On the complexity of approximating k-set packing
Given a k-uniform hypergraph, the Maximum k-Set Packing problem is to find the maximum disjoint set of edges. We prove that this problem cannot be efficiently approximated to with...
Elad Hazan, Shmuel Safra, Oded Schwartz
COCOON
2003
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Tetris is Hard, Even to Approximate
In the popular computer game of Tetris, the player is given a sequence of tetromino pieces and must pack them into a rectangular gameboard initially occupied by a given configurat...
Erik D. Demaine, Susan Hohenberger, David Liben-No...
SIAMDM
2010
117views more  SIAMDM 2010»
14 years 7 months ago
Design is as Easy as Optimization
We consider the class of max-min and min-max optimization problems subject to a global budget (or weight) constraint and we undertake a systematic algorithmic and complexitytheore...
Deeparnab Chakrabarty, Aranyak Mehta, Vijay V. Vaz...
CPM
2000
Springer
136views Combinatorics» more  CPM 2000»
15 years 1 months ago
Approximating the Maximum Isomorphic Agreement Subtree Is Hard
The Maximum Isomorphic Agreement Subtree (MIT) problem is one of the simplest versions of the Maximum Interval Weight Agreement Subtree method (MIWT) which is used to compare phyl...
Paola Bonizzoni, Gianluca Della Vedova, Giancarlo ...
SODA
2001
ACM
87views Algorithms» more  SODA 2001»
14 years 10 months ago
Steiner points in tree metrics don't (really) help
Consider an edge-weighted tree T = (V, E, w : E R+ ), in which a subset R of the nodes (called the required nodes) are colored red and the remaining nodes in S = V \R are colored ...
Anupam Gupta