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In this paper, we show that a minimum non-submodular cover problem can be reduced into a problem of minimum submodular cover with submodular cost. In addition, we present an application in wireless sensor networks.
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Du, H., Wu, W., Lee, W. et al. On minimum submodular cover with submodular cost. J Glob Optim 50, 229–234 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10898-010-9563-3
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