Approximating Steiner trees in graphs with restricted weights

نویسندگان

  • Magnús M. Halldórsson
  • Shuichi Ueno
  • Hiroshi Nakao
  • Yoji Kajitani
چکیده

We analyze the approximation ratio of the average distance heuristic for the Steiner tree problem on graphs, and prove nearly tight bounds for the cases of complete graphs with binary weights f1; dg, or weights in the interval 1; d], where d 2. The improvement over other analyzed algorithms is a factor of about e 2:718.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Networks

دوره 31  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1998