The inapproximability of non-NP-hard optimization problems

Theoretical Computer Science

Volumn 289, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 553-571

  Cai, Liming ^a   Juedes, David ^a   Kanj, Iyad ^b  

^a Ohio University   (United States)

^b DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Approximation hardness; Combinatorial optimization; Computational complexity; Reductions

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; OPTIMIZATION; POLYNOMIALS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SET THEORY;

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY;

EID: 0037163950     PISSN: 03043975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3975(01)00343-7     Document Type: Article

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