"Reducibility Among Combinatorial Problems" (1972)

E519559

"Reducibility Among Combinatorial Problems" (1972) is a landmark paper by Richard Karp that introduced NP-completeness to a broad audience by showing polynomial-time reductions among 21 classic combinatorial decision problems.

Try in SPARQL Jump to: Surface forms Statements Referenced by

Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
Reducibility Among Combinatorial Problems 0

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf scientific paper
author Richard Karp NERFINISHED
Richard M. Karp NERFINISHED
basedOn Cook–Levin theorem NERFINISHED
citationImpact highly cited paper in computer science
contribution established NP-completeness of many fundamental problems in graph theory and combinatorics
helped define the standard methodology for proving NP-completeness
popularized the notion of NP-completeness in computer science
showed polynomial-time reductions among 21 classic combinatorial decision problems
establishesNPCompletenessOf 3-Dimensional Matching problem NERFINISHED
Chromatic Number problem
Clique problem
Exact Cover by 3-Sets problem NERFINISHED
Exact Cover problem NERFINISHED
Feedback Vertex Set problem NERFINISHED
Hamiltonian Cycle problem NERFINISHED
Hitting Set problem NERFINISHED
Job Sequencing problem (NP-complete variant) NERFINISHED
Knapsack problem NERFINISHED
Node Cover problem
Partition problem
Satisfiability problem
Set Covering problem NERFINISHED
Set Packing problem NERFINISHED
Steiner Tree problem (decision version) NERFINISHED
Subset Sum problem NERFINISHED
Traveling Salesman problem (decision version) NERFINISHED
Vertex Cover problem
field computational complexity theory
computer science
theoretical computer science
influenced algorithm design and analysis
complexity-theoretic classification of combinatorial problems
development of NP-completeness theory
introducedConcept systematic use of polynomial-time many-one reductions among combinatorial problems
language English
publicationYear 1972
publishedIn Complexity of Computer Computations NERFINISHED
publisher Plenum Press NERFINISHED
status landmark paper in computational complexity theory
topic NP-complete problems
NP-completeness
combinatorial decision problems
polynomial-time reductions
usesConcept decision problem
many-one reduction
nondeterministic polynomial time
polynomial-time computable reduction

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Richard Karp notableWork "Reducibility Among Combinatorial Problems" (1972)