In 1996, Dor, Halperin, and Zwick introduced an influential method that delivered a “2-approximation” in nearly optimal time.
The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a prototypical NP-hard combinatorial optimisation challenge: given a set of locations and pairwise distances satisfying the triangle inequality, find the ...
This course studies approximation algorithms – algorithms that are used for solving hard optimization problems. Such algorithms find approximate (slightly suboptimal) solutions to optimization ...