Speaker R. Ravi
Affiliation Tepper School of Business
Host Ravi Kannan
Date recorded 18 December 2012
The lecture starts with an outline of the topics proposed to be covered, followed by an introduction to greedy algorithms illustrated using the set cover problem (logarithmic ratio approximation). The homework assigned was to analyze the greedy method applied to Uncapacitated Facility Location, and the Generalized Steiner Forest problems.
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