We study the approximability of some problems which aim at finding spanning trees in undirected graphs which maximize, rather than minimize, a single objective function representing a form of benefit or usefulness of the tree. We prove that the problem of finding a spanning tree which maximizes the
A short note on the approximability of the maximum leaves spanning tree problem
β Scribed by G. Galbiati; F. Maffioli; A. Morzenti
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 354 KB
- Volume
- 52
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0020-0190
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