Analysis and Design of Algorithms for Combinatorial Problems

Analysis and Design of Algorithms for Combinatorial Problems
Author: G. Ausiello
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 335
Release: 1985-05-01
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0080872204

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Combinatorial problems have been from the very beginning part of the history of mathematics. By the Sixties, the main classes of combinatorial problems had been defined. During that decade, a great number of research contributions in graph theory had been produced, which laid the foundations for most of the research in graph optimization in the following years. During the Seventies, a large number of special purpose models were developed. The impressive growth of this field since has been strongly determined by the demand of applications and influenced by the technological increases in computing power and the availability of data and software. The availability of such basic tools has led to the feasibility of the exact or well approximate solution of large scale realistic combinatorial optimization problems and has created a number of new combinatorial problems.

Design and Analysis of Approximation Algorithms

Design and Analysis of Approximation Algorithms
Author: Ding-Zhu Du
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2011-11-18
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1461417015

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This book is intended to be used as a textbook for graduate students studying theoretical computer science. It can also be used as a reference book for researchers in the area of design and analysis of approximation algorithms. Design and Analysis of Approximation Algorithms is a graduate course in theoretical computer science taught widely in the universities, both in the United States and abroad. There are, however, very few textbooks available for this course. Among those available in the market, most books follow a problem-oriented format; that is, they collected many important combinatorial optimization problems and their approximation algorithms, and organized them based on the types, or applications, of problems, such as geometric-type problems, algebraic-type problems, etc. Such arrangement of materials is perhaps convenient for a researcher to look for the problems and algorithms related to his/her work, but is difficult for a student to capture the ideas underlying the various algorithms. In the new book proposed here, we follow a more structured, technique-oriented presentation. We organize approximation algorithms into different chapters, based on the design techniques for the algorithms, so that the reader can study approximation algorithms of the same nature together. It helps the reader to better understand the design and analysis techniques for approximation algorithms, and also helps the teacher to present the ideas and techniques of approximation algorithms in a more unified way.

Combinatorial Optimization

Combinatorial Optimization
Author: Bernhard Korte
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 596
Release: 2006-01-27
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3540292977

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This well-written textbook on combinatorial optimization puts special emphasis on theoretical results and algorithms with provably good performance, in contrast to heuristics. The book contains complete (but concise) proofs, as well as many deep results, some of which have not appeared in any previous books.

Stochastic Local Search Algorithms for Multiobjective Combinatorial Optimization

Stochastic Local Search Algorithms for Multiobjective Combinatorial Optimization
Author: Luis F. Paquete
Publisher: IOS Press
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781586035969

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Stochastic Local Search algorithms were shown to give state-of-the-art results for many other problems, but little is known on how to design and analyse them for Multiobjective Combinatorial Optimization Problems. This book aims to fill this gap. It defines two search models that correspond to two distinct ways of tackling MCOPs by SLS algorithms."

Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization

Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization
Author: Klaus Jansen
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2003-07-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 354044436X

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, APPROX 2000, held in Saarbrcken, Germany in September 2000. The 22 revised full papers presented together with four invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 submissions. The topics dealt with include design and analysis of approximation algorithms, inapproximibility results, on-line problems, randomization techniques, average-case analysis, approximation classes, scheduling problems, routing and flow problems, coloring and partitioning, cuts and connectivity, packing and covering, geometric problems, network design, and various applications.

Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization

Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization
Author: Klaus Jansen
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2003-06-30
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540457534

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, APPROX 2002, held in Rome, Italy in September 2002. The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 54 submissions. Among the topics addressed are design and analysis of approximation algorithms, inapproximability results, online problems, randomization techniques, average-case analysis, approximation classes, scheduling problems, routing and flow problems, coloring and partitioning, cuts and connectivity, packing and covering, geometric problems, network design, and applications to game theory and other fields.

Combinatorial Optimization and Graph Algorithms

Combinatorial Optimization and Graph Algorithms
Author: Takuro Fukunaga
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2017-10-02
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9811061475

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Covering network designs, discrete convex analysis, facility location and clustering problems, matching games, and parameterized complexity, this book discusses theoretical aspects of combinatorial optimization and graph algorithms. Contributions are by renowned researchers who attended NII Shonan meetings on this essential topic. The collection contained here provides readers with the outcome of the authors’ research and productive meetings on this dynamic area, ranging from computer science and mathematics to operations research. Networks are ubiquitous in today's world: the Web, online social networks, and search-and-query click logs can lead to a graph that consists of vertices and edges. Such networks are growing so fast that it is essential to design algorithms to work for these large networks. Graph algorithms comprise an area in computer science that works to design efficient algorithms for networks. Here one can work on theoretical or practical problems where implementation of an algorithm for large networks is needed. In two of the chapters, recent results in graph matching games and fixed parameter tractability are surveyed. Combinatorial optimization is an intersection of operations research and mathematics, especially discrete mathematics, which deals with new questions and new problems, attempting to find an optimum object from a finite set of objects. Most problems in combinatorial optimization are not tractable (i.e., NP-hard). Therefore it is necessary to design an approximation algorithm for them. To tackle these problems requires the development and combination of ideas and techniques from diverse mathematical areas including complexity theory, algorithm theory, and matroids as well as graph theory, combinatorics, convex and nonlinear optimization, and discrete and convex geometry. Overall, the book presents recent progress in facility location, network design, and discrete convex analysis.