Lecture 10

Learning objectives

After this class, you should be able to:

1. Use the duality theorem and the weak duality theorem to prove other theorems.

Reading assignment

1. Chapter 12, sections 12.1.
2. Review the set cover problem in chapter 2.

Exercises and review questions

• Questions on current lecture's material
  1. Complete exercise 12.11.

• Questions on next lecture's material
  1. What is the time approximation factor for the greedy set cover algorithm of chapter 2?