Lecture 16: Approximations

October 28th, 2008

I’ll be using Chapter 11 from the textbook as a guide for our journey through approximation algorithms. However, I’d like to set the foundations with some basic material that I’ll draw from other sources. Since I don’t have comprehensive lecture notes yet, here are some links, with page numbers to look at:

  • Rajeev Motwani’s (old) lecture notes on approximation algorithms. The notes are old, but the fundamentals haven’t really changed. I’ll be drawing on material from Chapter 1 (pages 1-33: the definitions, and the impossibility results).
  • Sariel Har-Peled’s notes on approximation algorithms. The relevant material is in pages 1-2 (the greedy approximation algorithm for VERTEX COVER)

This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 at 11:06 pm and is filed under lectures, news.

2 Responses to “Lecture 16: Approximations”

  1. Zhuo Says:
    October 28th, 2008 at 11:12 pm

    The second link is not working. I think it should be http://valis.cs.uiuc.edu/~sariel/teach/05/b/lec/06_approx_I.pdf

  2. admin Says:
    October 28th, 2008 at 11:13 pm

    I already fixed the link. you’re fast !

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