A Nearly best-possible approximation algorithm for node-weighted Steiner trees

  • Authors:
  • Philip Klein;R. Ravi

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • A Nearly best-possible approximation algorithm for node-weighted Steiner trees
  • Year:
  • 1992

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Abstract

We give the first approximation algorithm for the node-weighted Steiner tree problem. Its performance guarantee is within a constant factor of the best possible unless $\tilde P \supseteq NP$. Our algorithm generalizes to handle other network design problems.