Abstract
In this announcement, we show that the classical Maximum Coverage problem (MC) admits a PTAS via local search in essentially all cases where the corresponding instances of Set Cover (SC) admit a PTAS via the local search approach by Mustafa and Ray [7]. As a corollary, we answer an open question by Badanidiyuru, Kleinberg, and Lee [1] regarding half-spaces in R3 thereby settling the existence of PTASs for essentially all natural cases of geometric MC problems. As an intermediate result, we show a color-balanced version of the classical planar subdivision theorem by Frederickson [5]. We believe that some of our ideas may be useful for analyzing local search in other settings involving a hard cardinality constraint.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | 45th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2018) |
| Editors | Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Christos Kaklamanis, Daniel Marx, Donald Sannella |
| Place of Publication | Dagstuhl, Germany |
| Publisher | Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik |
| Pages | 107:1-107:4 |
| Volume | 107 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-3-95977-076-7 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2018 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Publication series
| Series | Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) |
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| Volume | 107 |
| ISSN | 1868-8969 |
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Approximation Schemes for Geometric Coverage Problems
Chaplick, S., De, M., Ravsky, A. & Spoerhase, J., 2018, 26th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2018). Azar, Y., Bast, H. & Herman, G. (eds.). Dagstuhl, Germany: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik, Vol. 112. p. 17:1-17:15 (Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Vol. 112).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference article in proceeding › Academic › peer-review
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Approximation Schemes for Geometric Coverage Problems
Chaplick, S., De, M., Ravsky, A. & Spoerhase, J., 2016, 16 p.Research output: Working paper / Preprint › Preprint
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