A note on the generalized min-sum set cover problem

DOI10.1016/J.ORL.2011.08.002MaRDI QIDQ408432zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors David P. Williamson, Martin Skutella

Publication date 5 April 2012

Published in Operations Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.2033

zbMATH Keywords

approximation algorithms\(\alpha \)-point schedulingmin-sum set cover

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Approximation methods and heuristics in mathematical programming (90C59) Combinatorial optimization (90C27)

Abstract: In this paper, we consider the generalized min-sum set cover problem, introduced by Azar, Gamzu, and Yin. Bansal, Gupta, and Krishnaswamy give a 485-approximation algorithm for the problem. We are able to alter their algorithm and analysis to obtain a 28-approximation algorithm, improving the performance guarantee by an order of magnitude. We use concepts from $alpha$-point scheduling to obtain our improvements.

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