David P. Williamson
School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering

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  • On the Design of Approximation Algorithms for a Class of Graph Problems, PhD thesis, MIT Computer Science, September 1993.
  • Analysis of the Held-Karp Heuristic for the Traveling Salesman Problem, Master's thesis, MIT Computer Science, June 1990. [PDF 2.0MB]
Maximum cut and satisfiability problems Network design problems Scheduling Feedback vertex set problems

Miscellaneous

  • The approximability of constraint satisfaction, with Sanjeev Khanna and Madhu Sudan. SIAM Journal on Computing 30:1863-1920, 2001.
  • Gadgets, Approximation, and Linear Programming, with Luca Trevisan, Greg Sorkin, and Madhu Sudan. SIAM Journal on Computing  29:2074-2097, 2000.
  • Node-Disjoint Paths on the Mesh and a New Trade-Off in VLSI Layout , with Alok Aggarwal and Jon Kleinberg. SIAM Journal on Computing 29:1321-1333, 2000.
  • Adversarial Queueing Theory, with Allan Borodin, Jon Kleinberg, Prabhakar Raghavan, and Madhu Sudan. JACM 48:13-38, 2001.
  • On the Number of Small Cuts in a Graph, with Monika Rauch Henzinger. Information Processing Letters, 59:41-44, 1996.

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