On weighted vs unweighted versions of combinatorial optimization problems

Information and Computation

Volumn 167, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 10-26

  Crescenzi, Pierluigi ^a   Silvestri, Riccardo ^b   Trevisan, Luca ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^c Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTIMIZATION; POLYNOMIALS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SET THEORY;

DISJOINT SETS;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY;

EID: 0035947797     PISSN: 08905401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/inco.2000.3011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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