Recent Advances in Algorithms and Combinatorics

Recent Advances in Algorithms and Combinatorics
Author: Bruce A. Reed
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2006-05-17
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0387224440

Excellent authors, such as Lovasz, one of the five best combinatorialists in the world; Thematic linking that makes it a coherent collection; Will appeal to a variety of communities, such as mathematics, computer science and operations research

Combinatorial Optimization

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

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.

Combinatorial Algorithms

Combinatorial Algorithms
Author: Herbert S. Wilf
Publisher: SIAM
Total Pages: 49
Release: 1989-01-01
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0898712319

Covers key recent advances in combinatorial algorithms.

Combinatorics

Combinatorics
Author: Peter Jephson Cameron
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1994-10-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780521457613

Combinatorics is a subject of increasing importance because of its links with computer science, statistics, and algebra. This textbook stresses common techniques (such as generating functions and recursive construction) that underlie the great variety of subject matter, and the fact that a constructive or algorithmic proof is more valuable than an existence proof. The author emphasizes techniques as well as topics and includes many algorithms described in simple terms. The text should provide essential background for students in all parts of discrete mathematics.

Boolean Function Complexity

Boolean Function Complexity
Author: Stasys Jukna
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 618
Release: 2012-01-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3642245080

Boolean circuit complexity is the combinatorics of computer science and involves many intriguing problems that are easy to state and explain, even for the layman. This book is a comprehensive description of basic lower bound arguments, covering many of the gems of this “complexity Waterloo” that have been discovered over the past several decades, right up to results from the last year or two. Many open problems, marked as Research Problems, are mentioned along the way. The problems are mainly of combinatorial flavor but their solutions could have great consequences in circuit complexity and computer science. The book will be of interest to graduate students and researchers in the fields of computer science and discrete mathematics.

Algorithm Portfolios

Algorithm Portfolios
Author: Dimitris Souravlias
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2021-03-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3030685144

This book covers algorithm portfolios, multi-method schemes that harness optimization algorithms into a joint framework to solve optimization problems. It is expected to be a primary reference point for researchers and doctoral students in relevant domains that seek a quick exposure to the field. The presentation focuses primarily on the applicability of the methods and the non-expert reader will find this book useful for starting designing and implementing algorithm portfolios. The book familiarizes the reader with algorithm portfolios through current advances, applications, and open problems. Fundamental issues in building effective and efficient algorithm portfolios such as selection of constituent algorithms, allocation of computational resources, interaction between algorithms and parallelism vs. sequential implementations are discussed. Several new applications are analyzed and insights on the underlying algorithmic designs are provided. Future directions, new challenges, and open problems in the design of algorithm portfolios and applications are explored to further motivate research in this field.

Combinatorics Advances

Combinatorics Advances
Author: Charles J. Colbourn
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2013-12-01
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 146133554X

On March 28~31, 1994 (Farvardin 8~11, 1373 by Iranian calendar), the Twenty fifth Annual Iranian Mathematics Conference (AIMC25) was held at Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran. Its sponsors in~ eluded the Iranian Mathematical Society, and the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Sharif University of Technology. Among the keynote speakers were Professor Dr. Andreas Dress and Professor Richard K. Guy. Their plenary lec~ tures on combinatorial themes were complemented by invited and contributed lectures in a Combinatorics Session. This book is a collection of refereed papers, submitted primarily by the participants after the conference. The topics covered are diverse, spanning a wide range of combinatorics and al~ lied areas in discrete mathematics. Perhaps the strength and variety of the pa~ pers here serve as the best indications that combinatorics is advancing quickly, and that the Iranian mathematics community contains very active contributors. We hope that you find the papers mathematically stimulating, and look forward to a long and productive growth of combinatorial mathematics in Iran.

Combinatorial Algorithms

Combinatorial Algorithms
Author: Donald L. Kreher
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 1998-12-18
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780849339882

This textbook thoroughly outlines combinatorial algorithms for generation, enumeration, and search. Topics include backtracking and heuristic search methods applied to various combinatorial structures, such as: Combinations Permutations Graphs Designs Many classical areas are covered as well as new research topics not included in most existing texts, such as: Group algorithms Graph isomorphism Hill-climbing Heuristic search algorithms This work serves as an exceptional textbook for a modern course in combinatorial algorithms, providing a unified and focused collection of recent topics of interest in the area. The authors, synthesizing material that can only be found scattered through many different sources, introduce the most important combinatorial algorithmic techniques - thus creating an accessible, comprehensive text that students of mathematics, electrical engineering, and computer science can understand without needing a prior course on combinatorics.

Sparsity

Sparsity
Author: Jaroslav Nešetřil
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2012-04-24
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3642278752

This is the first book devoted to the systematic study of sparse graphs and sparse finite structures. Although the notion of sparsity appears in various contexts and is a typical example of a hard to define notion, the authors devised an unifying classification of general classes of structures. This approach is very robust and it has many remarkable properties. For example the classification is expressible in many different ways involving most extremal combinatorial invariants. This study of sparse structures found applications in such diverse areas as algorithmic graph theory, complexity of algorithms, property testing, descriptive complexity and mathematical logic (homomorphism preservation,fixed parameter tractability and constraint satisfaction problems). It should be stressed that despite of its generality this approach leads to linear (and nearly linear) algorithms. Jaroslav Nešetřil is a professor at Charles University, Prague; Patrice Ossona de Mendez is a CNRS researcher et EHESS, Paris. This book is related to the material presented by the first author at ICM 2010.

Handbook of Graph Theory, Combinatorial Optimization, and Algorithms

Handbook of Graph Theory, Combinatorial Optimization, and Algorithms
Author: Krishnaiyan "KT" Thulasiraman
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 1217
Release: 2016-01-05
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1420011073

The fusion between graph theory and combinatorial optimization has led to theoretically profound and practically useful algorithms, yet there is no book that currently covers both areas together. Handbook of Graph Theory, Combinatorial Optimization, and Algorithms is the first to present a unified, comprehensive treatment of both graph theory and c