A unified approach to approximation algorithms for bottleneck problems

  • Authors:
  • Dorit S. Hochbaum;David B. Shmoys

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of California, Berkeley, Berkeley;Univ. of California, Berkeley, Berkeley

  • Venue:
  • Journal of the ACM (JACM)
  • Year:
  • 1986

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Abstract

In this paper a powerful, and yet simple, technique for devising approximation algorithms for a wide variety of NP-complete problems in routing, location, and communication network design is investigated. Each of the algorithms presented here delivers an approximate solution guaranteed to be within a constant factor of the optimal solution. In addition, for several of these problems we can show that unless P = NP, there does not exist a polynomial-time algorithm that has a better performance guarantee.