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Approximability of Sparse Integer Programs

David Pritchard

The main focus of this paper is a pair of new approximation algorithms for certain integer programs. First, for covering integer programs {min cx:Ax≥b,0≤x≤d} where A has at most k nonzeroes per row, we give a k-approximation algorithm. (We assume A,b,c,d a ...

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Friedrich Eisenbrand, Thomas Rothvoss, Doemoetoer Palvoelgyi

A well studied special case of bin packing is the 3-partition problem, where n items of size > 1/4 have to be packed in a minimum number of bins of capacity one. The famous Karmarkar-Karp algorithm transforms a fractional solution of a suitable LP relaxati ...

Siam, 3600 Univ City Science Center, Philadelphia, Pa 19104-2688 Usa2011

Optimizing Mixing in Pervasive Networks: A Graph-Theoretic Perspective

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Murtuza Jadliwala, Igor Bilogrevic

One major concern in pervasive wireless applications is location privacy, where malicious eavesdroppers, based on static device identifiers, can continuously track users. As a commonly adopted countermeasure to prevent such identifier-based tracking, devic ...

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k-Edge-Connectivity: Approximation and LP Relaxation

David Pritchard

This paper's focus is the following family of problems, denoted k-ECSS, where k denotes a positive integer: given a graph (V, E) and costs for each edge, find a minimum-cost subset F of E such that (V, F) is k-edge-connected. For k=1 it is the spanning tre ...

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Hypergraphic LP Relaxations for Steiner Trees

David Pritchard

We investigate hypergraphic LP relaxations for the Steiner tree problem, primarily the partition LP relaxation introduced by Koenemann et al. [Math. Programming, 2009]. Specifically, we are interested in proving upper bounds on the integrality gap of this ...

Springer2010

Connected facility location via random facility sampling and core detouring

Friedrich Eisenbrand, Thomas Rothvoss

We present a simple randomized algorithmic framework for connected facility location problems. The basic idea is as follows: We run a black-box approximation algorithm for the unconnected facility location problem, randomly sample the clients, and open the ...

2010

Solving an Avionics Real-Time Scheduling Problem by Advanced IP-Methods

Friedrich Eisenbrand, Martin Niemeier

We report on the solution of a real-time scheduling problem that arises in the design of software-based operation control of aircraft. A set of tasks has to be distributed on a minimum number of machines and offsets of the tasks have to be computed. The ta ...

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Fault-Tolerant Facility Location: a randomized dependent LP-rounding algorithm

Abstract We give a new randomized LP-rounding 1.725-approximation algorithm for the metric Fault- Tolerant Uncapacitated Facility Location problem. This improves on the previously best known 2.076-approximation algorithmof Swamy & Shmoys. To the best of ou ...

Springer-Verlag New York, Ms Ingrid Cunningham, 175 Fifth Ave, New York, Ny 10010 Usa2010

On the inapproximability of independent domination in 2P3-free perfect graphs

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We consider the complexity of approximation for the INDEPENDENT DOMINATING SET problem in 2P(3)-free graphs, i.e., graphs that do not contain two disjoint copies of the chordless path on three vertices as all induced subgraph. We show that, if P not equal ...

2009

Some coloring and walking problems in graphs

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Graph theory is an important topic in discrete mathematics. It is particularly interesting because it has a wide range of applications. Among the main problems in graph theory, we shall mention the following ones: graph coloring and the Hamiltonian circuit ...

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