I
NSTANCE
:
A tree
, a node-weight function
such that
, and a page-capacity
p
.
S
OLUTION
:
A compact packing of
T
into pages of capacity
p
, i.e., a
function
such that
.
M
EASURE
:
The number of page faults of the packing, i.e.,
where
l(v)
denotes the number of edges in the path from the root to
v
,
denotes the
i
th node in this path, and
is
equal to 0 if the parent of
v
is assigned the same page of
u
, it
is equal to 1 otherwise.
Good News:
Approximable within absolute error 1 [
130
].
Comment:
If all
w(v)
are equal then it is approximable within absolute error
1/2.