Abstract
In this paper, we present an approximation algorithm for the maximum independent set (MIS) problem over the class of [Formula: see text]-VPG graphs when the input is specified by a [Formula: see text]-VPG representation. We obtain a [Formula: see text]-approximation algorithm running in [Formula: see text] time. This is an improvement over the previously best [Formula: see text]-approximation algorithm [J. Fox and J. Pach, Computing the independence number of intersection graphs, in Proc. Twenty-Second Annual ACM-SIAM Symp. Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2011), 2011, pp. 1161–1165, doi:10.1137/1.9781611973082.87] (for some fixed [Formula: see text]) designed for some subclasses of string graphs, on [Formula: see text]-VPG graphs.
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