3 papers
cs.DS2024
Approximation algorithms for non-sequential star packing problems
Mengyuan Hu, An Zhang, Yong Chen +2
For a positive integer , a -star (-star, -star, respectively) is a connected graph containing a degree- vertex and degree- vertices, where $\e…
cs.DS2024
Approximately covering vertices by order- or longer paths
Mingyang Gong, Zhi-Zhong Chen, Guohui Lin +1
This paper studies , which is to cover as many vertices as possible in a given graph by vertex-disjoint -paths (i.e., paths each with at least five verti…
cs.DS2023
An Approximation Algorithm for Covering Vertices by 4^+-Paths
Mingyang Gong, Zhi-Zhong Chen, Guohui Lin +1
This paper deals with the problem of finding a collection of vertex-disjoint paths in a given graph G=(V,E) such that each path has at least four vertices and the total number of v…