@inbook{22d2f0f5b2f74d1d8d5baa66fdf12554,
title = "Minimum-cost b-Edge dominating sets on trees",
abstract = "We consider the minimum-cost b-edge dominating set problem. This is a generalization of the edge dominating set problem, but the computational complexity for trees is an astonishing open problem. We make steps toward the resolution of this open problem in the following three directions. (1) We give the first combinatorial polynomial-time algorithm for paths. Prior to our work, the polynomial-time algorithm for paths used linear programming, and it was known that the linearprogramming approach could not be extended to trees. Thus, our algorithm would yield an alternative approach to a possible polynomial-time algorithm for trees. (2) We give a fixed-parameter algorithm for trees with the number of leaves as a parameter. Thus, a possible NP-hardness proof for trees should make use of trees with unbounded number of leaves. (3) We give a fully polynomial-time approximation scheme for trees. Prior to our work, the best known approximation factor was two. If the problem is NP-hard, then a possible proof cannot be done via a gap-preserving reduction from any APX-hard problem unless P = NP.",
author = "Takehiro Ito and Naonori Kakimura and Naoyuki Kamiyama and Yusuke Kobayashi and Yoshio Okamoto",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014. Copyright: Copyright 2015 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-13075-0_16",
language = "English",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "195--207",
editor = "Hee-Kap Ahn and Chan-Su Shin",
booktitle = "Algorithms and Computation - 25th International Symposium, ISAAC 2014, Proceedings",
}