Katarzyna Paluch
About me
PhD in 2005. Habilitation in 2017. Currently associate professor at the Institute of Computer Science, University of Wroclaw.
Papers
- Rectangle Tiling
Co-author: Krzysztof Lorys. APPROX 2000, 206-213
- New approximation algorithm for RTILE problem. .
Co-author: Krzysztof Lorys Theor. Comput. Sci. 2-3(303): 517-537 (2003)
- Rank-maximal matchings.
Co-authors: Robert W. Irving, Telikepalli Kavitha, Kurt Mehlhorn, Dimitrios Michail
SODA 2004: 68-75
- Strongly Stable Matchings in Time O(nm) and Extension to the Hospitals-Residents Problem.
Co-authors: Telikepalli Kavitha, Kurt Mehlhorn, Dimitrios Michail. STACS 2004: 222-233
- A Faster Algorithm for Minimum Cycle Basis of Graphs.
Co-authors: Telikepalli Kavitha, Kurt Mehlhorn, Dimitrios Michail. ICALP 2004: 846-857
- A 17/8-Approximation Algorithm for Rectangle Tiling.
ICALP 2004: 1054-1065
- A New Approximation Algorithm for Multidimensional Rectangle Tiling.
ISAAC 2006: 712-721
- Rank-maximal matchings.
Co-authors: Robert W. Irving, Telikepalli Kavitha, Kurt Mehlhorn, Dimitrios Michail
ACM Transactions on Algorithms 2(4): 602-610 (2006)
- Strongly stable matchings in time O(nm) and extension to the hospitals-residents problem.
Co-authors: Telikepalli Kavitha, Kurt Mehlhorn, Dimitrios Michail.
ACM Transactions on Algorithms 3(2): (2007)
- An O(m^{2}n) Algorithm for Minimum Cycle Basis of Graphs.
Co-authors: Telikepalli Kavitha, Kurt Mehlhorn, Dimitrios Michail. Algorithmica 52(3): 333-349 (2008)
- A 7/9 - Approximation Algorithm for the Maximum Traveling Salesman Problem.
Co-authors: Marcin Mucha, Aleksander Madry APPROX-RANDOM 2009: 298-311
- Faster and simpler approximation of stable matchings.
CoRR abs/0911.5660, WAOA 2011, Algorithms
- Popular and clan-popular b-matchings. ISAAC 2012, Theoretical Computer Science
- Capacitated Rank-maximal Matchings. CIAC 2013
- A combinatorial algorithm for two matchings: fair and maximum rank-maximal. Manuscript.
- Simpler Approximation of the Maximum Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problem. Co-authors: Khaled Elbassioni, Anke van Zuylen. STACS 2012
- Better Approximation Algorithms for Maximum Asymmetric Traveling Salesman and Shortest Superstring. arXiv:1401.3670 [arXiv]
- Maximum ATSP with Weights Zero and One via Half-Edges. [arXiv] WAOA 2015,
journal version: [TOCS]
- Balanced matchings, unbalanced ones and related problems. CTW 2015
- Characterisation of Strongly Stable Matchings. Co-authors: Adam Kunysz, Pratik Ghosal [arXiv] SODA 2016
- A 4/5-Approximation Algorithm for the Maximum Traveling Salesman Problem. Co-authors: Szymon Dudycz, Jan Marcinkowski, Bartosz Rybicki [arXiv] IPCO 2017
- The Dynamics of Rank-Maximal and Popular Matchings. Co-authors: Pratik Ghosal, Adam Kunysz [arXiv]
Theoretical Computer Science (2024)
- Optimal General Matchings. Co-author: Szymon Dudycz [arXiv] WG 2018
- Manipulation Strategies for the Rank-Maximal Matching Problem. Co-author: Pratik Ghosal COCOON 2018
- New approximation algorithms for (1,2)-TSP. Co-authors: Anna Adamaszek and Matthias Mnich ICALP 2018
- Rectangle tiling binary arrays. Co-authors: Pratik Ghosal and Syed Mohammas Meesum [arXiv]
APPROX 2024
- A simple combinatorial algorithm for restricted 2-matchings in subcubic graphs - via half-edges. Co-author: Mateusz Wasylkiewicz [IPL], arXiv
- New approximation algorithms for maximum asymmetric traveling salesman and shortest superstring. [arXiv] - this is a simpler but weaker version of [17], a fully detailed [17] would be significantly longer than this weaker version.
- Restricted t-matchings via half-edges. Co-author: Mateusz Wasylkiewicz [ESA-2021]
- Clique-free t-matchings in degree-bounded graphs. Co-author: Mateusz Wasylkiewicz SOFSEM 2026
- Triangle-free 2-matchings. [arXiv] This is a simpler and faster alternative to Hartvigsen's algorithm.
PhD thesis
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Research interests
- approximation algorithms
- graphs
- combinatorial optimisation
Scientific involvements
Previous NCN research grants: "Combinatorial optimization through the lens of the traveling salesman route and matchings" and
"Efficient approximation algorithms for finding optimal traveling salesman tours and related problems"
Graduated PhD students: Pratik Ghosal (PhD 2020), Adam Kunysz (PhD 2021), Szymon Dudycz (PhD 2024), Mateusz Wasylkiewicz (PhD 2025)
MC member of COST Actions IC1205 on Computational Social Choice and CA15210 European Network for Collaboration on Kidney Exchange Programmes
Teaching (in Polish)
Office hours
Po uzgodnieniu przez e-mail.
Addresses and telephones
Institute of Computer Science
University of Wroclaw
ul. Joliot-Curie 15, room 304
50–383 Wroc³aw
phone: (+48)71-37-57-821
email: abraka at cs dot uni dot wroc dot pl