Combinatorial Optimization Theory and Algorithms.

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Edition: Third Edition.
• Series: Algorithms and Combinatorics 21, 21
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Computer science > Mathematics.; Calculus of variations.; Combinatorics.; Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; Optimization.; Mathematics of Computing.

This comprehensive textbook on combinatorial optimization puts special emphasis on theoretical results and algorithms with provably good performance, in contrast to heuristics. It has arisen as the basis of several courses on combinatorial optimization and more special topics at graduate level. Sinc...

Table of Contents:

• Graphs
• Linear Programming
• Linear Programming Algorithms
• Integer Programming
• Spanning Trees and Arborescences
• Shortest Paths
• Network Flows
• Minimum Cost Flows
• Maximum Matchings
• Weighted Matching
• b-Matchings and T-Joins
• Matroids
• Generalizations of Matroids
• NP-Completeness
• Approximation Algorithms
• The Knapsack Problem
• Bin-Packing
• Multicommodity Flows and Edge-Disjoint Paths
• Network Design Problems
• The Traveling Salesman Problem
• Facility Location.