An edge dominating set in a graph G = (V,E) is a subset S of edges such that each edge in E - S is adjacent to at least one edge in S. The edge dominating set problem, to find an edge dominating set of minimum size, is a basic and important NP-hard problem that has been extensively studied in approximation algorithms and parameterized complexity. In this paper, we present improved hardness results and parameterized approximation algorithms for edge dominating set. More precisely, we first show that it is NP-hard to approximate edge dominating set in polynomial time within a factor better than 1.18. Next, we give a parameterized approximation schema (with respect to the standard parameter) for the problem and, finally, we develop an O*(1.821 τ)-time exact algorithm where τ is the size of a minimum vertex cover of G. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.
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Escoffier, B., Monnot, J., Paschos, V. T., & Xiao, M. (2012). New results on polynomial inapproximability and fixed parameter approximability of edge dominating set. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 7535 LNCS, pp. 25–36). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33293-7_5
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