Improved inaproximability results are given, including the best up to date explicit approximation thresholds for bounded occurence satisfiability problems, like MAX-2SAT and E2-LIN-2, and problems in bounded degree graphs, like MIS, Node Cover and MAX CUT. We prove also for the first time inapproximability of the problem of Sorting by ... more >>>

We present some of the recent results on computational complexity of approximating bounded degree combinatorial optimization problems. In particular, we present the best up to now known explicit nonapproximability bounds on the very small degree optimization problems which are of particular importance on the intermediate stages of proving approximation hardness ... more >>>

Analysis of genomes evolving by inversions leads to a general combinatorial problem of {\em Sorting by Reversals}, MIN-SBR, the problem of sorting a permutation by a minimum number of reversals. This combinatorial problem has a long history, and a number of other motivations. It was studied in a great detail ... more >>>