TY - GEN
T1 - Capacitated vertex covering with applications
AU - Guha, Sudipto
AU - Hassin, Refael
AU - Khuller, Samir
AU - Or, Einat
PY - 2002/1/1
Y1 - 2002/1/1
N2 - In this paper we study the capacitated vertex cover problem, a generalization of the well known vertex cover problem. Given a graph G = (V, E) with weights on the vertices, the goal is to cover all the edges by picking a cover of minimum weight from the vertices. When we pick a copy of a vertex, we pay the weight of the vertex and cover upto a pre-specified number of edges incident on this vertex (its capacity). The problem is NP-hard. We give a primal-dual based 2 approximation and study several generalizations, as well as the problem restricted to trees.
AB - In this paper we study the capacitated vertex cover problem, a generalization of the well known vertex cover problem. Given a graph G = (V, E) with weights on the vertices, the goal is to cover all the edges by picking a cover of minimum weight from the vertices. When we pick a copy of a vertex, we pay the weight of the vertex and cover upto a pre-specified number of edges incident on this vertex (its capacity). The problem is NP-hard. We give a primal-dual based 2 approximation and study several generalizations, as well as the problem restricted to trees.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84902074040
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms
SP - 858
EP - 865
BT - Proceedings of the 13th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, SODA 2002
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 13th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, SODA 2002
Y2 - 6 January 2002 through 8 January 2002
ER -