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Distributed approximation of maximum independent set and maximum matching. (English) Zbl 1380.68416

Proceedings of the 2017 ACM symposium on principles of distributed computing, PODC ’17, Washington, DC, USA, July 25–27, 2017. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (ISBN 978-1-4503-4992-5). 165-174 (2017).

MSC:

68W15 Distributed algorithms
05C69 Vertex subsets with special properties (dominating sets, independent sets, cliques, etc.)
05C70 Edge subsets with special properties (factorization, matching, partitioning, covering and packing, etc.)
05C85 Graph algorithms (graph-theoretic aspects)
68W25 Approximation algorithms
68W40 Analysis of algorithms

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