In this paper we design an approximation algorithm for the planar three-dimensional assignment problem with performance guarantee 0:669. The algorithm is based on a novel rounding technique of the linear programming relaxation (the dependent contention resolution) that might be interesting in its own right and applied to other optimization problems.
By: Dmitriy Katz-Rogozhnikov, Maxim Sviridenko
Published in: RC24942 in 2010
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