Design and Analysis of Approximation Algorithms - Ding-Zhu Du

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Biographie:
Ding-Zhu Du is co-editor of the first and soon-to-be published, second editions, of the Handbook of Combinatorial Optimization. He was also co-author with P.M. Pardalos and W. Wu of the Kluwer publication Mathematical Theory of Optimization. Du will co-author upcoming Springer publications (2012)?entitled Connected Dominating Set: Theory and Applications and Introduction to Combinatorial Optimization. Prof. Du is also the EiC of the Journal of Combinatorial Optimization (Springer). Ker-I Ko is a well known expert in the field of theoretical computer science. He has authored a single publication with Birkhauser Computational Complexity of Real Functions in 1991,?with very good reviews. Prof. Du and Ker-I Ko have written several texts together including Problem Solving in Automata, Languages, and Complexity John Wiley, 2001...

Sommaire:
Ding-Zhu Du is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas. For a number of years he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Combinatorial Optimization and the combinatorial optimization series editor for the SOIA book series. Professor Du is co-editor of the first and second editions of the Handbook of Combinatorial Optimization. He was also co-author (with Pardalos and Wu) of the Kluwer publication Mathematical Theory of Optimization. Panos M. Pardalos is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida. Additionally, he is the Paul and Heidi Brown Preeminent Professor in Industrial & Systems Engineering. He is also an affiliated faculty member of the Computer and Information Science Department, the Hellenic Studies Center, and the Biomedical Engineering Program. He is also the Director of the Center for Applied Optimization. Dr. Pardalos is a world leading expert in global and combinatorial optimization. His recent research interests include network design problems, optimization in telecommunications, e-commerce, data mining, biomedical applications, and massive computing. He has co-authored and co-edited more than 30 books, as well as publishing more than 600 journal articles and conference proceedings. Prof. Pardalos is a Fellow of AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), Fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), and EUROPT. He is a Distinguished International Professor by the Chinese Minister of Education...

From the reviews: This book is intended for graduate courses of different levels, and course plans based on different chapter selections are proposed. Each chapter is accompanied by several pages of exercises and historical notes, setting the material and the references in context. The comprehensive bibliography covers a huge amount of literature in the heuristics and approximations area, as well as specific application problems. The index is detailed. This makes the book a good source for a course on approximation algorithms. ...For the more advanced reader the book seems to be an excellent in-depth resource on approximation algorithms, for their beginning up to the latest developments. -Gudula Runger, Computing Reviews It contains a large amount of precisely selected topics covering various aspects and design techniques related to approximation algorithms. ... It has been intended as a textbook for a graduate course in theoretical computer science. ... it can also be used as a reference book for postgraduate students and researchers in the area of design and analysis of algorithms. It also serves as a reference for established researchers by providing efficient tools for various applied areas like applied mathematics, engineering, medicine, economics, and other sciences. (Vladim?r Lacko, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1237, 2012)