On the Positive--Negative Partial Set Cover problem

  • Authors:
  • Pauli Miettinen

  • Affiliations:
  • Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Department of Computer Science, P.O. Box 68 (Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2b), FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The Positive-Negative Partial Set Cover problem is introduced and its complexity, especially the hardness-of-approximation, is studied. The problem generalizes the Set Cover problem, and it naturally arises in certain data mining applications.