a Department of Mathematical Sciences, Tokyo Denki University, Hatoyama, Saitama 350-0394, Japan b Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Abstract:
This paper deals with the maximum triangle packing problem. For this problem, Hassin and Rubinstein gave a randomized polynomial-time approximation algorithm that achieves an expected ratio of for any constant ?>0. By modifying their algorithm, we obtain a new randomized polynomial-time approximation algorithm for the problem which achieves an expected ratio of 0.5257(1−?) for any constant ?>0.