Quasi-polynomial Time Approximation Algorithm for Low-Degree ...

Carnegie Mellon University

Research Showcase @ CMU Tepper School of Business

12-2003

Quasi-polynomial Time Approximation Algorithm for Low-Degree Minimum-Cost Steiner Trees Jochen Könemann Carnegie Mellon University

R. Ravi Carnegie Mellon University, [email protected]

Follow this and additional works at: http://repository.cmu.edu/tepper Part of the Economic Policy Commons, and the Industrial Organization Commons Published In P.K. Pandya and J. Radhakrishnan (Eds.): FSTTCS 2003, LNCS 2914, 289-301.

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