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Improved Approximation Algorithms for (Budgeted) Node-weighted Steiner Problems

MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi
Vahid Liaghat
ICALP, Springer (2013)

Abstract

Moss and Rabani [12] study constrained node-weighted Steiner tree problems with two independent weight values associated with each node, namely, cost and prize (or penalty). They give an O(logn)-approximation algorithm for the prize-collecting node-weighted Steiner tree problem (PCST)