Super-polynomial approximation branching algorithms

Escoffier, Bruno; Paschos, Vangelis Th.; Tourniaire, Emeric

RAIRO - Operations Research - Recherche Opérationnelle, Special issue - Advanced Optimization Approaches and Modern OR-Applications, Tome 50 (2016) no. 4-5, pp. 979-994.

We give sufficient conditions for deriving moderately exponential and/or parameterized time approximation schemata ($i.e.$, algorithms achieving ratios $1\pm ϵ$, for arbitrarily small $ϵ$) for broad classes of combinatorial optimization problems via a well-known technique widely used for deriving exact algorithms, namely the branching tree pruning.

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