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