Lectures on Proof Verification and Approximation Algorithms (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Ernst W. Mayr, Hans J??rgen Pr??mel, Angelika Steger

ISBN 10: 3540642013 / ISBN 13: 9783540642015

Published by Springer 2008-06-13, 2008

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• Title: Lectures on Proof Verification and Approximation Algorithms (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
• Publisher: Springer 2008-06-13
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540642013
• ISBN 13: 9783540642015
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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...

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