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Nature Reserve Selection Problem: A Tight Approximation Algorithm

Bordewich, M.; Semple, C.

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C. Semple



Abstract

The nature reserve selection problem is a problem that arises in the context of studying biodiversity conservation. Subject to budgetary constraints, the problem is to select a set of regions to be conserved so that the phylogenetic diversity of the set of species contained within those regions is maximized. Recently, it has been shown in a paper by Moulton et al. that this problem is NP-hard. In this paper, we establish a tight polynomial-time approximation algorithm for the Nature Reserve Section Problem. Furthermore, we resolve a question on the computational complexity of a related problem left open by Moulton et al.

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Bordewich, M., & Semple, C. (2008). Nature Reserve Selection Problem: A Tight Approximation Algorithm. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 5(2), 275-280. https://doi.org/10.1109/tcbb.2007.70252

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Apr 1, 2008
Deposit Date Dec 21, 2009
Publicly Available Date Jan 6, 2010
Journal IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Print ISSN 1545-5963
Publisher Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 5
Issue 2
Pages 275-280
DOI https://doi.org/10.1109/tcbb.2007.70252
Publisher URL http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TCBB.2007.70252

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