The Positive-Negative Partial Set Cover problem is introduced and its complexity, especially the hardness-of-approximation, is studied. The problem generalizes the Set Cover probl...
Abstract: We introduce the snowblower problem (SBP), a new optimization problem that is closely related to milling problems and to some material-handling problems. The objective in...
Esther M. Arkin, Michael A. Bender, Joseph S. B. M...
We consider the problem of scheduling a set of n jobs on m identical parallel machines so as to minimize the weighted sum of job completion times. This problem is NP-hard in the s...
The cluster connecting problem inside a simple polygon is introduced in this paper. The problem is shown to be NP-complete. A log n-factor approximation algorithm is proposed.
Sanjib Sadhu, Arijit Bishnu, Subhas C. Nandy, Part...
We give a (1 - 1/e)-approximation algorithm for the Max-Profit Generalized Assignment Problem (Max-GAP) with fixed profits when the profit (but not necessarily the size) of every ...