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rescalable

(definition)

Definition: An optimization for which given any instance of the problem and integer λ >0, there is an easily computed second instance that is the same except that the objective function for the second instance is (element-wise) λ times the objective function of the first instance. For such problems, the best one can hope for is a relative performance guarantee, not an absolute performance guarantee.

Note: From Algorithms and Theory of Computation Handbook, page 34-18, Copyright © 1999 by CRC Press LLC. Appearing in the Dictionary of Computer Science, Engineering and Technology, Copyright © 2000 CRC Press LLC.

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Algorithms and Theory of Computation Handbook, CRC Press LLC, 1999, "rescalable", in Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [online], Vreda Pieterse and Paul E. Black, eds. 17 December 2004. (accessed TODAY) Available from: http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/rescalable.html