| Article ID: | iaor20071401 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 3 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Start Page Number: | 288 |
| End Page Number: | 298 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2006 |
| Journal: | Discrete Optimization |
| Authors: | Margot Franois, Bendall Gareth |
| Keywords: | heuristics |
This paper gives a sufficient condition for a combinatorial problem to be greedy-type resistant, i.e. such that, on some instances of the problem, any greedy-type algorithm will output the unique worst possible solution. The condition is used to show that the Equipartition, the