Parameterized approximation algorithms for hitting set

  • Authors:
  • Ljiljana Brankovic;Henning Fernau

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia;Abteilung Informatik, Universität Trier, Trier, Germany

  • Venue:
  • WAOA'11 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Approximation and Online Algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We are going to analyze simple search tree algorithms for approximating d-Hitting Set, focussing on the case of factor-2 approximations for d=3. We also derive several results for hypergraph instances of bounded degree, including a new polynomial-time approximation.