| Article ID: | iaor20081970 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 35 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 201 |
| End Page Number: | 204 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2007 |
| Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
| Authors: | Avis David, Imamura Tomokazu |
| Keywords: | heuristics |
We analyze a list heuristic for the vertex cover problem that handles the vertices in a given static order based on the degree sequence. We prove an approximation ratio of at most