Article ID: | iaor20114443 |
Volume: | 111 |
Issue: | 11 |
Start Page Number: | 538 |
End Page Number: | 540 |
Publication Date: | May 2011 |
Journal: | Information Processing Letters |
Authors: | Swaminathan Ram, Li Xiaozhou, Rudra Atri |
Keywords: | colouring, approximation algorithms |
? We propose a new optimization problem called ‘flexible coloring’. ? We give a hardness of approximation result for the problem. ? We propose a simple approximation algorithm for the problem.