@InProceedings{chen_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2019.46, author = {Chen, Yong and Goebel, Randy and Su, Bing and Tong, Weitian and Xu, Yao and Zhang, An}, title = {{A 21/16-Approximation for the Minimum 3-Path Partition Problem}}, booktitle = {30th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2019)}, pages = {46:1--46:20}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-130-6}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2019}, volume = {149}, editor = {Lu, Pinyan and Zhang, Guochuan}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2019.46}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-115422}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2019.46}, annote = {Keywords: 3-path partition, exact set cover, approximation algorithm, local search, amortized analysis} }