Deeper Local Search for Better Approximation on Maximum Internal Spanning Trees
Deeper Local Search for Better Approximation on Maximum Internal Spanning Trees
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10.1007/978-3-662-44777-2_53
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2014-09
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Wenjun Li;Jianer Chen;Jian-xin Wang
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作者:
Wenjun Li;Jianer Chen;Jian-xin Wang
Spanning tree has been fundamental in the research of graph algorithms. In this paper, we study the optimization problemMaxIST, which maximizes the number of internal nodes in a spanning tree of a given graph, and is a generalization of the famousHamiltonian-Pathproblem. We present a polynomial-time approximation algorithm based on a deep local search strategy, identify combinatorial structures that support thorough analysis on the spanning trees resulted from such deep local search strategies, and prove that our algorithm has an approximation ratio 1.5 for theMaxISTproblem, improving the previous best approximation algorithm of ratio 5/3 for the problem.