| Combinatorial Optimization: Theory and Algorithms 2018 Edition Contributor(s): Korte, Bernhard (Author), Vygen, Jens (Author) |
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ISBN: 3662560380 ISBN-13: 9783662560389 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $94.99 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | Combinatorics - Mathematics | Calculus - Computers | Data Processing |
| Dewey: 004.015 |
| Series: Algorithms and Combinatorics |
| Physical Information: 1.5" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (2.60 lbs) 698 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This comprehensive textbook on combinatorial optimization places special emphasis on theoretical results and algorithms with provably good performance, in contrast to heuristics. It is based on numerous courses on combinatorial optimization and specialized topics, mostly at graduate level. This book reviews the fundamentals, covers the classical topics (paths, flows, matching, matroids, NP-completeness, approximation algorithms) in detail, and proceeds to advanced and recent topics, some of which have not appeared in a textbook before. Throughout, it contains complete but concise proofs, and also provides numerous exercises and references. This sixth edition has again been updated, revised, and significantly extended. Among other additions, there are new sections on shallow-light trees, submodular function maximization, smoothed analysis of the knapsack problem, the (ln 4+ɛ)-approximation for Steiner trees, and the VPN theorem. Thus, this book continues to represent the state of the art of combinatorial optimization. |