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ICALP
2010
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Inapproximability of Hypergraph Vertex Cover and Applications to Scheduling Problems
Assuming the Unique Games Conjecture (UGC), we show optimal inapproximability results for two classic scheduling problems. We obtain a hardness of 2 − ε for the problem of mini...
Nikhil Bansal, Subhash Khot
ANTSW
2004
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
A Comparison Between ACO Algorithms for the Set Covering Problem
Abstract. In this paper we present a study of several Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithms for the Set Covering Problem. In our computational study we emphasize the influence ...
Lucas Lessing, Irina Dumitrescu, Thomas Stütz...
DAM
2008
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15 years 5 months ago
Crown reductions for the Minimum Weighted Vertex Cover problem
The paper studies crown reductions for the Minimum Weighted Vertex Cover problem introduced recently in the unweighted case by Fellows et al. [Blow-Ups, Win/Win's and crown r...
Miroslav Chlebík, Janka Chlebíkov&aa...
MP
2006
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15 years 5 months ago
Approximate fixed-rank closures of covering problems
Consider a 0/1 integer program min{cT x : Ax b, x {0, 1}n } where A is nonnegative. We show that if the number of minimal covers of Ax b is polynomially bounded, then there is ...
Daniel Bienstock, Mark Zuckerberg
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ESA
2009
Springer
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15 years 11 months ago
Improved Approximation Algorithms for Label Cover Problems
In this paper we consider both the maximization variant Max Rep and the minimization variant Min Rep of the famous Label Cover problem, for which, till now, the best approximation ...
Moses Charikar, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, Howard J...