@InProceedings{faour_et_al:LIPIcs.OPODIS.2021.17, author = {Faour, Salwa and Fuchs, Marc and Kuhn, Fabian}, title = {{Distributed CONGEST Approximation of Weighted Vertex Covers and Matchings}}, booktitle = {25th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2021)}, pages = {17:1--17:20}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-219-8}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2022}, volume = {217}, editor = {Bramas, Quentin and Gramoli, Vincent and Milani, Alessia}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2021.17}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-157928}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2021.17}, annote = {Keywords: distributed graph algorithms, minimum weighted vertex cover, maximum weighted matching, distributed optimization, CONGEST model} }