We give the first algorithmic study of a class of "covering tour" problems related to the geometric traveling salesman problem: Find a polygonal tour for a cutter so that it sweeps out a specified region (&q...
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We give the first algorithmic study of a class of "covering tour" problems related to the geometric traveling salesman problem: Find a polygonal tour for a cutter so that it sweeps out a specified region ("pocket") in order to minimize a cost that depends mainly on the number of turns. These problems arise naturally in manufacturing applications of computational geometry to automatic tool path generation and automatic inspection systems, as well as arc routing ("postman") problems with turn penalties. We prove the NP-completeness of minimum-turn milling and give efficient approximation algorithms for several natural versions of the problem, including a polynomial-time approximation scheme based on a novel adaptation of the m-guillotine method.
This work considers the optimum weighted source-destination communication spanning tree problem (WSDOCT), which is an NP-hard special case of the optimum communication spanning tree problem (OCT). Given an undirected ...
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This work considers the optimum weighted source-destination communication spanning tree problem (WSDOCT), which is an NP-hard special case of the optimum communication spanning tree problem (OCT). Given an undirected graph G = (V, E) with non-negative lengths omega(e) associated to the edges and non-negative routing weights sigma(u) and rho(u) respectively to sending and receiving communication of nodes u is an element of V, the objective is to find a spanning tree T of G, that minimizes: Sigma(u, nu is an element of V) (sigma(u)rho(v) + rho(u)sigma(v))d(T, u, v), where d(H, x, y) is the minimum distance between nodes x and y in a graph H subset of G. We present a polynomialtimeapproximationscheme for the metric case of the WSDOCT. This result improves the until now best existing approximation algorithm for this problem. Also, we give a 2-approximation for the problem which improves the time complexity required by our PTAS to achieve this approximation ratio. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
The publications on two-machine flow shop scheduling problems with job dependent storage requirements, where a job seizes a portion of the storage space for the entire duration of its processing, were motivated by var...
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The publications on two-machine flow shop scheduling problems with job dependent storage requirements, where a job seizes a portion of the storage space for the entire duration of its processing, were motivated by various applications ranging from supply chains of mineral resources to multimedia systems. In contrast to the previous publications that assumed that the availability of the storage space remains unchanged, this paper is concerned with a more general case when the availability is a function of time. It strengthens the previously published result concerning the existence of an optimal permutation schedule, shows that the variable storage space availability leads to the NP-hardness in the strong sense even for unit processing times, and presents a polynomial-time approximation scheme together with several heuristic algorithms. The heuristics are evaluated by means of computational experiments.
The problem of finding a center string that is "close" to every given string arises in computational molecular biology and coding theory. This problem has two versions: the Closest String problem and the Clo...
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The problem of finding a center string that is "close" to every given string arises in computational molecular biology and coding theory. This problem has two versions: the Closest String problem and the Closest Substring problem. Given a set of strings S = {s(1), s(2),..., s(n)}, each of length m, the Closest String problem is to find the smallest d and a string s of length m which is within Hamming distance d to each s(i) is an element of S. This problem comes from coding theory when we are looking for a code not too far away from a given set of codes. Closest Substring problem, with an additional input integer L, asks for the smallest d and a string s, of length L, which is within Hamming distance d away from a substring, of length L, of each s(i). This problem is much more elusive than the Closest String problem. The Closest Substring problem is formulated from applications in finding conserved regions, identifying genetic drug targets and generating genetic probes in molecular biology. Whether there are efficient approximation algorithms for both problems are major open questions in this area. We present two polynomial-timeapproximation algorithms with approximation ratio 1 + epsilon for any small epsilon to settle both questions.
Temporal graphs abstractly model real-life inherently dynamic networks. Given a graph G, a temporal graph with Gas the underlying graph is a sequence of subgraphs (snapshots) G(t) of G, where t >= 1. In this paper ...
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Temporal graphs abstractly model real-life inherently dynamic networks. Given a graph G, a temporal graph with Gas the underlying graph is a sequence of subgraphs (snapshots) G(t) of G, where t >= 1. In this paper we study stochastic temporal graphs, i.e. stochastic processes Gwhose random variables are the snapshots of a temporal graph on G. Anatural feature observed in various real-life scenarios is a memory effect in the appearance probabilities of particular edges;i.e. the probability an edge e is an element of E appears at time step tdepends on its appearance (or absence) at the previous ksteps. We study the hierarchy of models of memory-k, k >= 0, in an edge-centric network evolution setting: every edge of Ghas its own independent probability distribution for its appearance over time. We thoroughly investigate the complexity of two naturally related, but fundamentally different, temporal path problems, called MINIMUM ARRIVAL and BEST POLICY. (c) 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Binary non-linear programs belong to the class of combinatorial problems which are computationally hard even to approximate. This paper aims to explore some conditions on the problem structure, under which the resulti...
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Binary non-linear programs belong to the class of combinatorial problems which are computationally hard even to approximate. This paper aims to explore some conditions on the problem structure, under which the resulting problem can be well approximated. Particularly, we consider a setting when both objective function and constraint are low-rank functions, which depend only on a few linear combinations of the input variables, and provide polynomialtimeapproximationschemes. Our result generalizes and unifies some existing results in the literature. (C) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
We show that very simple algorithms based on local search are polynomial-time approximation schemes for MAXIMUM INDEPENDENT SET, MINIMUM VERTEX COVER and MINIMUM DOMINATING SET, when the input graphs have a fixed forb...
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We show that very simple algorithms based on local search are polynomial-time approximation schemes for MAXIMUM INDEPENDENT SET, MINIMUM VERTEX COVER and MINIMUM DOMINATING SET, when the input graphs have a fixed forbidden minor. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Bilo, DavideUniv Laquila
Dept Informat Engn Comp Sci & Math Via Vetoio 0 Coppito I-67100 Laquila AQ Italy
Reoptimization is a setting in which we are given a good approximate solution of an optimization problem instance and a local modification that slightly changes the instance. The main goal is that of finding a good ap...
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Reoptimization is a setting in which we are given a good approximate solution of an optimization problem instance and a local modification that slightly changes the instance. The main goal is that of finding a good approximate solution of the modified instance. We investigate one of the most studied scenarios in reoptimization known as Steiner tree reoptimization. Steiner tree reoptimization is a collection of strongly NP \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$\textsf {NP}$$\end{document} -hard optimization problems that are defined on top of the classical Steiner tree problem and for which several constant-factor approximation algorithms have been designed in the last decades. In this paper we improve upon all these results by developing a novel technique that allows us to design polynomial-time approximation schemes. Remarkably, prior to this paper, no approximation algorithm better than recomputing a solution from scratch was known for the elusive scenario in which the cost of a single edge decreases. Our results are best possible since none of the problems addressed in this paper admits a fully polynomial-time approximation scheme, unless P = NP \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$\textsf {P}=\textsf {NP}$$\end{document}
A polynomial-time approximation scheme (PTAS) is derived for the partitioned EDF scheduling of implicit-deadline sporadic task systems upon unrelated multiprocessor platforms that are comprised of a constant number of...
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A polynomial-time approximation scheme (PTAS) is derived for the partitioned EDF scheduling of implicit-deadline sporadic task systems upon unrelated multiprocessor platforms that are comprised of a constant number of distinct types of processors. This generalizes earlier results showing the existence of polynomial-time approximation schemes for the partitioned EDF scheduling of implicit-deadline sporadic task systems on (1) identical multiprocessor platforms, and (2) unrelated multiprocessor platforms containing a constant number of processors.
Motivated by an application in assortment planning under the nested logit choice model, we develop a polynomial-time approximation scheme for the sum-of-ratios optimization problem with a capacity constraint and a fix...
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Motivated by an application in assortment planning under the nested logit choice model, we develop a polynomial-time approximation scheme for the sum-of-ratios optimization problem with a capacity constraint and a fixed number of product groups. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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