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Lectures on Proof Verification and Approximation Algorithms [electronic resource] / edited by Ernst W. Mayr, Hans Jürgen Prömel, Angelika Steger.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1998Edition: 1st ed. 1998Description: XII, 348 p. online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783540697015
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 004.0151 23
Online resources:
Contents:
to the theory of complexity and approximation algorithms -- to randomized algorithms -- Derandomization -- Proof checking and non-approximability -- Proving the PCP-Theorem -- Parallel repetition of MIP(2,1) systems -- Bounds for approximating MaxLinEq3-2 and MaxEkSat -- Deriving non-approximability results by reductions -- Optimal non-approximability of MaxClique -- The hardness of approximating set cover -- Semidefinite programming and its applications to approximation algorithms -- Dense instances of hard optimization problems -- Polynomial time approximation schemes for geometric optimization problems in euclidean metric spaces.
Summary: During the last few years, we have seen quite spectacular progress in the area of approximation algorithms: for several fundamental optimization problems we now actually know matching upper and lower bounds for their approximability. This textbook-like tutorial is a coherent and essentially self-contained presentation of the enormous recent progress facilitated by the interplay between the theory of probabilistically checkable proofs and aproximation algorithms. The basic concepts, methods, and results are presented in a unified way to provide a smooth introduction for newcomers. These lectures are particularly useful for advanced courses or reading groups on the topic.
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to the theory of complexity and approximation algorithms -- to randomized algorithms -- Derandomization -- Proof checking and non-approximability -- Proving the PCP-Theorem -- Parallel repetition of MIP(2,1) systems -- Bounds for approximating MaxLinEq3-2 and MaxEkSat -- Deriving non-approximability results by reductions -- Optimal non-approximability of MaxClique -- The hardness of approximating set cover -- Semidefinite programming and its applications to approximation algorithms -- Dense instances of hard optimization problems -- Polynomial time approximation schemes for geometric optimization problems in euclidean metric spaces.

During the last few years, we have seen quite spectacular progress in the area of approximation algorithms: for several fundamental optimization problems we now actually know matching upper and lower bounds for their approximability. This textbook-like tutorial is a coherent and essentially self-contained presentation of the enormous recent progress facilitated by the interplay between the theory of probabilistically checkable proofs and aproximation algorithms. The basic concepts, methods, and results are presented in a unified way to provide a smooth introduction for newcomers. These lectures are particularly useful for advanced courses or reading groups on the topic.

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