We present new combinatorial approximation algorithms for k-set cover. Previous approaches are based on extending the greedy algorithm by efficiently handling small sets. The new a...
Stavros Athanassopoulos, Ioannis Caragiannis, Chri...
We introduce a natural generalization of submodular set cover and exact active learning with a finite hypothesis class (query learning). We call this new problem interactive submo...
In the context of mobile communication, an efficient algorithm for the base-station placement problem is developed in this paper. The objective is to place a given number of base-...
Gautam K. Das, Sandip Das, Subhas C. Nandy, Bhaban...
We give an O( log n) factor approximation algorithm for covering a rectilinear polygon with holes using axis-parallel rectangles. This is the first polynomial time approximation a...
Computing a minimum vertex cover in graphs and hypergraphs is a well-studied optimizaton problem. While intractable in general, it is well known that on bipartite graphs, vertex c...