@InProceedings{lokshtanov_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2024.72,
  author =	{Lokshtanov, Daniel and Panolan, Fahad and Saurabh, Saket and Xue, Jie and Zehavi, Meirav},
  title =	{{A 1.9999-Approximation Algorithm for Vertex Cover on String Graphs}},
  booktitle =	{40th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2024)},
  pages =	{72:1--72:11},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-316-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{293},
  editor =	{Mulzer, Wolfgang and Phillips, Jeff M.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2024.72},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-200174},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2024.72},
  annote =	{Keywords: vertex cover, geometric intersection graphs, approximation algorithms}
}