Combinatorial optimization include such tasks as finding the quickest route to work, scheduling jobs to specialists, and placing bus stops so as to minimize commuter times. We consider problems where one is given a collection of constraints with the objective of finding an assignment satisfying as many constraints as possible, also known as Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs). Most CSPs are NP-hard to solve optimally and we turn to approximations - a solution is said to be a factor-c approximation if its satisfies at least c times the optimal number of constraints. This thesis presents new results on the approximation limits of CSPs in various settings. In ordering CSPs, one is given constraints which specify the relative order of items...
An α-approximation algorithm is an algorithm guaranteed to output a solutionthat is within an α rati...
An instance of the Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) is given by a family of constraints on over...
In the maximum constraint satisfaction problem (MAX CSP), one is given a finite collection of (possi...
In the Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) one is supposed to find an assignment to a set of varia...
In this survey, we offer an overview of approximation algorithms for constraint satisfaction problem...
We show improved NP-hardness of approximating Ordering Constraint Satis-faction Problems (OCSPs). Fo...
International audienceWe study the optimization version of constraint satisfaction problems (Max-CSP...
We prove that the Bounded Occurrence Ordering k-CSP Problem is not approximation resistant. We give ...
We study the approximability of Minimum Constraint Satisfaction Problems (Min CSPs) with a fixed fin...
A constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) requires a value, selected from a given finite domain, to be...
For many constraint satisfaction problems, the algorithm which chooses a random assignment achieves ...
This thesis is concerned with solving NP-hard problems. We consider two prominent strategies of copi...
Also published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 1097, 1996, Pages 76-87. 5th Scandinavia...
This chapter surveys counting Constraint Satisfaction Problems (counting CSPs, or #CSPs) and their c...
An instance of the Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) is given by a finite set of variables, a fi...
An α-approximation algorithm is an algorithm guaranteed to output a solutionthat is within an α rati...
An instance of the Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) is given by a family of constraints on over...
In the maximum constraint satisfaction problem (MAX CSP), one is given a finite collection of (possi...
In the Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) one is supposed to find an assignment to a set of varia...
In this survey, we offer an overview of approximation algorithms for constraint satisfaction problem...
We show improved NP-hardness of approximating Ordering Constraint Satis-faction Problems (OCSPs). Fo...
International audienceWe study the optimization version of constraint satisfaction problems (Max-CSP...
We prove that the Bounded Occurrence Ordering k-CSP Problem is not approximation resistant. We give ...
We study the approximability of Minimum Constraint Satisfaction Problems (Min CSPs) with a fixed fin...
A constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) requires a value, selected from a given finite domain, to be...
For many constraint satisfaction problems, the algorithm which chooses a random assignment achieves ...
This thesis is concerned with solving NP-hard problems. We consider two prominent strategies of copi...
Also published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 1097, 1996, Pages 76-87. 5th Scandinavia...
This chapter surveys counting Constraint Satisfaction Problems (counting CSPs, or #CSPs) and their c...
An instance of the Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) is given by a finite set of variables, a fi...
An α-approximation algorithm is an algorithm guaranteed to output a solutionthat is within an α rati...
An instance of the Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) is given by a family of constraints on over...
In the maximum constraint satisfaction problem (MAX CSP), one is given a finite collection of (possi...