Introduction to Algorithms
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Author: Thomas H. Cormen, Ronald L. Rivest, Charles E. Leiserson, Clifford Stein
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To show how to generalize the set covering problem so that each set s1in the family F to provide an approximate solution for any instance of the weighted set-covering problem.
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