ArticleOriginal scientific text

Title

Solving a permutation problem by a fully polynomial-time approximation scheme

Authors 1, 1, 1

Affiliations

  1. Adam Mickiewicz University, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Poland

Abstract

For a problem of optimal discrete control with a discrete control set composed of vertices of an n-dimensional permutohedron, a fully polynomial-time approximation scheme is proposed.

Keywords

combinatorial optimization, discrete control theory, fully polynomial-time approximation scheme

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Pages:
191-203
Main language of publication
English
Received
2009-11-30
Published
2010
Exact and natural sciences