ASP, The Art and Science of Practice: Appeal to NP-Completeness Considered Harmful: Does the Fact That a Problem Is NP-Complete Tell Us Anything?

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1287/inte.1070.0305

NP-completeness is often used as an argument for the development of heuristic algorithms, as opposed to optimal ones. The intent of this article is to show that this is a mistake.

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