The maximum vertex coverage problem on bipartite graphs

  • Authors:
  • Nicola Apollonio;Bruno Simeone

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2014

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Abstract

Given a simple undirected graph G and a positive integer s the Maximum Vertex Coverage Problem is the problem of finding a set U of s vertices of G such that the number of edges having at least one endpoint in U is as large as possible. We prove that the Maximum Vertex Coverage problem on bipartite graphs is NP-hard and discuss several consequences related to known combinatorial optimization problems.