Approximation algorithms for NP-hard problems
A threshold of ln n for approximating set cover
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
The budgeted maximum coverage problem
Information Processing Letters
Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness
Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness
An Approximation Algorithm for the Noah's Ark Problem with Random Feature Loss
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB)
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The Nature Reserve Selection Problem is a problem that arises in the context of studying biodiversity conservation. Subject to budgetary constraints, the problem is to select a set of regions to conserve so that the phylogenetic diversity of the set of species contained within those regions is maximized. Recently, it was shown in a paper by Moulton {\\em et al.} that this problem is NP-hard. In this paper, we establish a tight polynomial-time approximation algorithm for the Nature Reserve Section Problem. Furthermore, we resolve a question on the computational complexity of a related problem left open in Moulton {\\em et al.}