When Does a Dynamic Programming Formulation Guarantee the Existence of a Fully Polynomial Time Approximation Scheme (FPTAS)?

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DOI10.1287/ijoc.12.1.57.11901zbMath1034.90014OpenAlexW2136658137MaRDI QIDQ4427320

Gerhard J. Woeginger

Publication date: 6 November 2003

Published in: INFORMS Journal on Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1287/ijoc.12.1.57.11901




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