@article {15249,
	title = {An improved approximation algorithm for vertex cover with hard capacities},
	journal = {Journal of Computer and System Sciences},
	volume = {72},
	year = {2006},
	month = {2006/02//},
	pages = {16 - 33},
	abstract = {We study the capacitated vertex cover problem, a generalization of the well-known vertex-cover problem. Given a graph G = ( V , E ) , the goal is to cover all the edges by picking a minimum cover using the vertices. When we pick a vertex, we can cover up to a pre-specified number of edges incident on this vertex (its capacity). The problem is clearly NP-hard as it generalizes the well-known vertex-cover problem. Previously, approximation algorithms with an approximation factor of 2 were developed with the assumption that an arbitrary number of copies of a vertex may be chosen in the cover. If we are allowed to pick at most a fixed number of copies of each vertex, the approximation algorithm becomes much more complex. Chuzhoy and Naor (FOCS, 2002) have shown that the weighted version of this problem is at least as hard as set cover; in addition, they developed a 3-approximation algorithm for the unweighted version. We give a 2-approximation algorithm for the unweighted version, improving the Chuzhoy{\textendash}Naor bound of three and matching (up to lower-order terms) the best approximation ratio known for the vertex-cover problem.},
	keywords = {Approximation algorithms, Capacitated covering, Linear programming, Randomized rounding, Set cover, Vertex cover},
	isbn = {0022-0000},
	doi = {10.1016/j.jcss.2005.06.004},
	url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022000005000747},
	author = {Gandhi,Rajiv and Halperin,Eran and Khuller, Samir and Kortsarz,Guy and Srinivasan, Aravind}
}
@article {17561,
	title = {Approximation algorithms for partial covering problems},
	journal = {Journal of Algorithms},
	volume = {53},
	year = {2004},
	month = {2004/10//},
	pages = {55 - 84},
	abstract = {We study a generalization of covering problems called partial covering. Here we wish to cover only a desired number of elements, rather than covering all elements as in standard covering problems. For example, in k-partial set cover, we wish to choose a minimum number of sets to cover at least k elements. For k-partial set cover, if each element occurs in at most f sets, then we derive a primal-dual f-approximation algorithm (thus implying a 2-approximation for k-partial vertex cover) in polynomial time. Without making any assumption about the number of sets an element is in, for instances where each set has cardinality at most three, we obtain an approximation of 4/3. We also present better-than-2-approximation algorithms for k-partial vertex cover on bounded degree graphs, and for vertex cover on expanders of bounded average degree. We obtain a polynomial-time approximation scheme for k-partial vertex cover on planar graphs, and for covering k points in Rd by disks.},
	keywords = {Approximation algorithms, Partial covering, Primal-dual methods, Randomized rounding, Set cover, Vertex cover},
	isbn = {0196-6774},
	doi = {10.1016/j.jalgor.2004.04.002},
	url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0196677404000689},
	author = {Gandhi,Rajiv and Khuller, Samir and Srinivasan, Aravind}
}
@conference {17660,
	title = {Splitters and near-optimal derandomization},
	booktitle = {, 36th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, 1995. Proceedings},
	year = {1995},
	month = {1995/10/23/25},
	pages = {182 - 191},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	abstract = {We present a fairly general method for finding deterministic constructions obeying what we call k-restrictions; this yields structures of size not much larger than the probabilistic bound. The structures constructed by our method include (n,k)-universal sets (a collection of binary vectors of length n such that for any subset of size k of the indices, all 2k configurations appear) and families of perfect hash functions. The near-optimal constructions of these objects imply the very efficient derandomization of algorithms in learning, of fixed-subgraph finding algorithms, and of near optimal ΣIIΣ threshold formulae. In addition, they derandomize the reduction showing the hardness of approximation of set cover. They also yield deterministic constructions for a local-coloring protocol, and for exhaustive testing of circuits},
	keywords = {Boosting, Circuit testing, computational complexity, computational linguistics, Computer science, Contracts, derandomization, deterministic constructions, Educational institutions, Engineering profession, exhaustive testing, fairly general method, fixed-subgraph finding algorithms, hardness of approximation, Information systems, k-restrictions, learning, local-coloring protocol, MATHEMATICS, near-optimal constructions, near-optimal derandomization, Parallel algorithms, probabilistic bound, probability, Protocols, randomised algorithms, Set cover, splitters},
	isbn = {0-8186-7183-1},
	doi = {10.1109/SFCS.1995.492475},
	author = {Naor,M. and Schulman,L. J and Srinivasan, Aravind}
}
