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2014 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
The Maximum Labeled Path Problem
verfasst von : Basile Couëtoux, Elie Nakache, Yann Vaxès
Erschienen in: Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science
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Abstract
In this paper, we study the approximability of the Maximum Labeled Path problem: given a vertex-labeled directed acyclic graph \(D,\) find a path in \(D\) that collects a maximum number of distinct labels. Our main results are a \(\sqrt{OPT}\)-approximation algorithm for this problem and a self-reduction showing that any constant ratio approximation algorithm for this problem can be converted into a PTAS. This last result, combined with the APX-hardness of the problem, shows that the problem cannot be approximated within a constant ratio unless \(P=NP\).