Introduction to Combinatorial Optimization - Du, Ding-Zhu

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Résumé :
Introductory courses in combinatorial optimization are popular at the upper undergraduate/graduate levels in computer science, industrial engineering, and business management/OR, owed to its wide applications in these fields. There are several published textbooks that treat this course and the authors have used many of them in their own teaching experiences. This present text fills a gap and is organized with a stress on methodology and relevant content, providing a step-by-step approach for the student to become proficient in solving combinatorial optimization problems. Applications and problems are considered via recent technology developments including wireless communication, cloud computing, social networks, and machine learning, to name several, and the reader is led to the frontiers of combinatorial optimization. Each chapter presents common problems, such as minimum spanning tree, shortest path, maximum matching, network flow, set-cover, as well as key algorithms, suchas greedy algorithm, dynamic programming, augmenting path, and divide-and-conquer. Historical notes, ample exercises in every chapter, strategically placed graphics, and an extensive bibliography are amongst the gems of this textbook....

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...