A survey on the structure of approximation classes

Bruno Escoffier (1) , Vangelis Paschos (1)

1 LAMSADE - Laboratoire d'analyse et modélisation de systèmes pour l'aide à la décision

Structure of approximability classes by introduction of approximation preserving reductions has been one of the main research programmes in theoretical computer science during the last thirty years. This paper surveys the main results achieved in this domain.

Domaines: Algorithme et structure de données [cs.DS]; Complexité [cs.CC]; Recherche opérationnelle [math.OC]

Bruno Escoffier, Vangelis Paschos. A survey on the structure of approximation classes. 2007. ⟨hal-00909487⟩