Understand how approximation algorithms compute solutions that are guaranteed to be within some constant factor of the optimal solution. Develop a basic understanding of how linear and integer ...

Such algorithms find approximate (slightly suboptimal) solutions to optimization problems in polynomial time. Unlike heuristics, approximation algorithms have provable performance guarantees: they ...

COMP_SCI 437: Approximation Algorithms VIEW ALL COURSE TIMES AND SESSIONS Prerequisites COMP_SCI 212 and COMP_SCI 336 (or similar courses) or CS MS or CS PhDs Description This course studies ...

The algorithm we propose, IES, gives an approximate solution to the LHD problem regardless of its dimension and size with a theoretical performance guarantee. We introduce two upper bounds for the ...

Although efficient in a strictly theoretical sense (i.e., in the sense of taking polynomial versus exponential time), this algorithm for the permanent is not practical. Indeed, to date, no practical ...

Yanfeng Ouyang, Carlos F. Daganzo, Discretization and Validation of the Continuum Approximation Scheme for Terminal System Design, Transportation Science, Vol. 40, No. 1 (February 2006), pp. 89-98 ...