We investigate the optimal piecewise linear interpolation of the bivariate product xy over rectangular domains. More precisely, our aim is to minimize the number of simplices in the triangulation underlying the interp...
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We investigate the optimal piecewise linear interpolation of the bivariate product xy over rectangular domains. More precisely, our aim is to minimize the number of simplices in the triangulation underlying the interpolation, while respecting a prescribed approximation error. First, we show how to construct optimal triangulations consisting of up to five simplices. Using these as building blocks, we construct a triangulation scheme called crossing swords that requires at most - times the number of simplices in any optimal triangulation. In other words, we derive an approximation algorithm for the optimal triangulation problem. We also show that crossing swords yields optimal triangulations in the case that each simplex has at least one axis-parallel edge. Furthermore, we present approximation guarantees for other well-known triangulation schemes, namely for the red refinement and longest-edge bisection strategies as well as for a generalized version of K1-triangulations. Thereby, we are able to show that our novel approach dominates previous triangulation schemes from the literature, which is underlined by illustrative numerical examples.
To enable Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) level garment manufacturers to measure and monitor the work of individual workers without incurring a large financial burden, a smart sewing work measurement system ...
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To enable Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) level garment manufacturers to measure and monitor the work of individual workers without incurring a large financial burden, a smart sewing work measurement system was developed using an IoT-based power monitoring device and an approximation algorithm. The amount of electric current used in the sewing work was measured, and the measured data was transmitted to a server using Wi-Fi communication. The analysis of the data was conducted through the Symbolic Aggregate approximation (SAX) and Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) methods. The daily workload of each worker derived from the system developed through this study showed an error rate of 8% compared to the actual workload, and the time measured by the sensor was different from the time measured by a manager using a stopwatch. These differences are considered to be due to measurement errors in the stopwatch, human noise from the measurer and the operator, and the relatively few samples relative to the total workload. The IoT-based power monitoring and work measurement system for sewing work developed through this study can be applied to smart garment manufacturing factories at an acceptable cost level, while SMEs can realise high recognition rates and semi-real-time monitoring.
Given an edge-weighted complete graph G on 3n vertices, the maximum-weight triangle packing problem asks for a collection of n vertex-disjoint triangles in G such that the total weight of edges in these n triangles is...
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Given an edge-weighted complete graph G on 3n vertices, the maximum-weight triangle packing problem asks for a collection of n vertex-disjoint triangles in G such that the total weight of edges in these n triangles is maximized. Although the problem has been extensively studied in the literature, it is surprising that prior to this work, no nontrivial approximation algorithm had been designed and analyzed for its metric case, where the edge weights in the input graph satisfy the triangle inequality. In this paper, we design the first nontrivial polynomial-time approximation algorithm for the maximum-weight metric triangle packing problem. Our algorithm is randomized and achieves an expected approximation ratio of 0.66768 - epsilon for any constant epsilon > 0.
Given two genomic maps G(1) and G(2) each represented as a sequence of n gene markers, the maximal strip recovery (MSR) problem is to retain the maximum number of markers in both G(1) and G(2) such that the resultant ...
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Given two genomic maps G(1) and G(2) each represented as a sequence of n gene markers, the maximal strip recovery (MSR) problem is to retain the maximum number of markers in both G(1) and G(2) such that the resultant subsequences, denoted as G(1)* and G(2)* can be partitioned into the same set of maximal strips, which are common substrings of length greater than or equal to two. The complementary maximal strip recovery (CMSR) problem has the complementary goal to delete the minimum number of markers. Both MSR and CMSR have been shown to be NP-hard and APX-complete, and they admit a 4-approximation and a 3-approximation respectively. In this paper, we present an improved 7/3-approximation algorithm for the CMSR problem, with its worst-case performance analysis done through a local amortization with a re-weighting scheme. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
We study a multiple-vehicle routing problem with a minimum makespan objective and compatibility constraints. We provide an approximation algorithm and a nearly-matching hardness of approximation result. We also provid...
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We study a multiple-vehicle routing problem with a minimum makespan objective and compatibility constraints. We provide an approximation algorithm and a nearly-matching hardness of approximation result. We also provide computational results on benchmark instances with diverse sizes showing that the proposed algorithm (i) has a good empirical approximation factor. (ii) runs in a short amount of time and (iii) produces solutions comparable to the best feasible solutions found by a direct integer program formulation. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
This paper studies the minimum weight partial connected set cover problem (PCSC). Given an element set U, a collection of subsets of U, a weight function c : , a connected graph on vertex set , and a positive integer ...
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This paper studies the minimum weight partial connected set cover problem (PCSC). Given an element set U, a collection of subsets of U, a weight function c : , a connected graph on vertex set , and a positive integer , the goal is to find a minimum weight subcollection such that the subgraph of G induced by is connected, , and the weight of is minimum. If the graph has the property that any two sets with a common element has hop distance at most r in , then the problem is called r-hop PCSC. We presented an -approximation algorithm for the minimum weight 1-hop PCSC problem and an -approximation algorithm for the minimum cardinality r-hop PCSC problem. Our performance ratio improves previous results and our method is much simpler than previous methods.
In this paper, we study the generalized submodular maximization problem with a nonnegative monotone submodular set function as the objective function and subject to a matroid constraint. The problem is generalized thr...
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In this paper, we study the generalized submodular maximization problem with a nonnegative monotone submodular set function as the objective function and subject to a matroid constraint. The problem is generalized through the curvature parameter alpha is an element of [0, 1] which measures how far a set function deviates from linearity to submodularity. We propose a deterministic approximation algorithm which uses the approximation algorithm proposed by Buchbinder et al. [2] as a building block and inherits the approximation guarantee for alpha = 1. For general value of the curvature parameter alpha is an element of [0, 1], we present an approximation algorithm with a factor of 1+h(alpha)(y)+Delta.[3+alpha-(2+alpha)y-(1+alpha)h(alpha)(y)]/2+alpha+(1+alpha)(1-y), where y is an element of [0, 1] is a predefined parameter for tuning the ratio. In particular, when alpha = 1 we obtain a ratio 0.5008 when setting y = 0.9, coinciding with the renowned state-of-art approximate ratio; when alpha = 0 that the object is a linear function, the approximation factor equals one and our algorithm is indeed an exact algorithm that always produces optimum solutions. (C) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
The phylogenetic diversity (PD) of a set of species is a measure of their evolutionary distinctness based on a phylogenetic tree. PD is increasingly being adopted as an index of biodiversity in ecological conservation...
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The phylogenetic diversity (PD) of a set of species is a measure of their evolutionary distinctness based on a phylogenetic tree. PD is increasingly being adopted as an index of biodiversity in ecological conservation projects. The Noah's Ark Problem (NAP) is an NP-Hard optimization problem that abstracts a fundamental conservation challenge in asking to maximize the expected PD of a set of taxa given a fixed budget, where each taxon is associated with a cost of conservation and a probability of extinction. Only simplified instances of the problem, where one or more parameters are fixed as constants, have as of yet been addressed in the literature. Furthermore, it has been argued that PD is not an appropriate metric for models that allow information to be lost along paths in the tree. We therefore generalize the NAP to incorporate a proposed model of feature loss according to an exponential distribution and term this problem NAP with Loss (NAPL). In this paper, we present a pseudopolynomial time approximation scheme for NAPL.
Motivated by recent applications in robust optimization and in sign-constrained linear-quadratic control, we study in this paper a new class of optimization problems called separated continuous conic programming (SCCP...
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Motivated by recent applications in robust optimization and in sign-constrained linear-quadratic control, we study in this paper a new class of optimization problems called separated continuous conic programming (SCCP). Focusing on a symmetric primal-dual pair, we develop a strong duality theory for the SCCP. Our idea is to use discretization to connect the SCCP and its dual to two ordinary conic programs. We show if the latter are strongly feasible and with finite optimal values, a condition that is readily veri. able, then the strong duality holds for the SCCP. This approach also leads to a polynomial-time approximation algorithm that solves the SCCP to any required accuracy.
Finding the shortest vector in a lattice is a NP-hard problem. The best known approximation alpha(n-1/2), alpha >= 4/3, which is not algorithm for this problem is LLL algorithm with the approximation factor of alph...
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Finding the shortest vector in a lattice is a NP-hard problem. The best known approximation alpha(n-1/2), alpha >= 4/3, which is not algorithm for this problem is LLL algorithm with the approximation factor of alpha a good approximation factor. This work proposes a new polynomial time approximation algorithm for the shortest lattice vector problem. The proposed method makes use of only integer arithmetic and does not require Gram-Schmidt orthogonal basis for generating reduced basis. The proposed method is able to obtain an approximation factor of 1/(1-delta), where 0 <= delta < 1.
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