Tetris is hard, even to approximate

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2697, Issue , 2003, Pages 351-363

  Demaine, Erik D ^a   Hohenberger, Susan ^a   Liben Nowell, David ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS;

INAPPROXIMABILITY; NP COMPLETE; OFFLINE; TETROMINO;

COMPUTER GAMES;

EID: 35248818685     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45071-8_36     Document Type: Article

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