Previous Work: For general graphs, the competitive ratios are high compared to the trivial upper bound ofn. Lovasz, Saks and Trotter [27] developed a deterministic online algorithm that achieves a competitive factor ofO(n/log∗n). Vishwanathan [31] devised a randomized algorithm that attains...
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