On Streaming and Communication Complexity of the Set Cover Problem

We develop the first streaming algorithm and the first two-party communication protocol that uses a constant number of passes/rounds and sublinear space/communication for logarithmic approximation to the classic Set Cover problem. Specifically, for n elements and m sets, our algorithm/protocol achie...

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Main Authors: Demaine, Erik D., Indyk, Piotr, Mahabadi, Sepideh, Vakilian, Ali
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Springer-Verlag 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/99997
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3803-5703
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5049-7594
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5004-8991
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7983-9524