The travelling salesman problem (TSP) remains one of the most challenging NP‐hard problems in combinatorial optimisation, with significant implications for logistics, network design and route ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This paper proposes an algorithm that automatically translates the "continuum approximation" (CA) recipes for location problems into discrete designs. It applies to terminal systems, but can also be ...

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 ...

The most recent class of control techniques to be used are collectively referred to as adaptive control. Although the basic algorithms have been known for decades, they have not been applied in ...