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Randomized Priority Algorithms

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Approximation and Online Algorithms (WAOA 2003)

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In a paper of Borodin, Nielsen and Rackoff [8], a framework for abstracting the properties of deterministic greedy-like algorithms was proposed. We extend their model so as to formally define ”randomized greedy-like algorithms” and be able to prove lower bounds on the approximability of a certain problem by such a class of algorithms. We show how our techniques can be applied in well-studied problems such as the facility location and makespan scheduling problems, for which both upper and lower bounds on the approximation ratio achieved by deterministic greedy-like algorithms are known.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 3G4

    Spyros Angelopoulos

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    Roberto Solis-Oba

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Angelopoulos, S. (2004). Randomized Priority Algorithms. In: Solis-Oba, R., Jansen, K. (eds) Approximation and Online Algorithms. WAOA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2909. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24592-6_3

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