An analysis of the Greedy Algorithm for Stochastic Set Cover

03/20/2018
by   Srinivasan Parthasarathy, et al.
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We show that the approximation ratio of the greedy algorithm for the stochastic set cover problem is H(m), the m-th Harmonic number, where m is the number of elements in the ground set.

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