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Erratum: The Approximability of the Exemplar Breakpoint Distance Problem

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The paper “The Approximability of the Exemplar Breakpoint Distance Problem” [1],, which appeared in AAIM 2006, contained several negative results and one positive result — a claimed O(logn)-factor greedy approximation for the One-sided Exemplar Breakpoint Distance Problem. Here, we show that the analysis was incorrect and the approximation factor of the greedy algorithm could be Θ(n), where n is the size of the alphabet.

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  1. Chen, Z., Fu, B., Zhu, B.: The Approximability of the Exemplar Breakpoint Distance Problem. In: Cheng, S.-W., Poon, C.K. (eds.) AAIM 2006. LNCS, vol. 4041, pp. 291–302. Springer, Heidelberg (2006)

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Chen, Z., Fu, B., Zhu, B. (2012). Erratum: The Approximability of the Exemplar Breakpoint Distance Problem. In: Snoeyink, J., Lu, P., Su, K., Wang, L. (eds) Frontiers in Algorithmics and Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7285. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29700-7_34

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