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Applications of Combinatorial Optimization 2nd Edition
Author(s): Vangelis Th. Paschos
- Publisher: Wiley-ISTE
- Publication Date: 29 July 2014
- Edition: 2nd
- Language: English
- Print length: 448 pages
- ISBN-10: 1848216580
- ISBN-13: 9781848216587
Book Description
Combinatorial optimization is a multidisciplinary scientific area, lying in the interface of three major scientific domains: mathematics, theoretical computer science and management. The three volumes of the Combinatorial Optimization series aim to cover a wide range of topics in this area. These topics also deal with fundamental notions and approaches as with several classical applications of combinatorial optimization.
– On the complexity of combinatorial optimization problems, presenting basics about worst-case and randomized complexity;
– Classical solution methods, presenting the two most-known methods for solving hard combinatorial optimization problems, that are Branch-and-Bound and Dynamic Programming;
– Elements from mathematical programming, presenting fundamentals from mathematical programming based methods that are in the heart of Operations Research since the origins of this field.
Concepts of Combinatorial Optimization, is divided into three parts:
– On the complexity of combinatorial optimization problems, presenting basics about worst-case and randomized complexity;
– Classical solution methods, presenting the two most-known methods for solving hard combinatorial optimization problems, that are Branch-and-Bound and Dynamic Programming;
– Elements from mathematical programming, presenting fundamentals from mathematical programming based methods that are in the heart of Operations Research since the origins of this field.
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About the Author
Vangelis Paschos is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Paris-Dauphine and Chairman of the LAMSADE (Laboratory for the Modeling and the Analysis of Decision Aiding Systems). His research interests include complexity theory, the theory of the polynomial approximation of NP-hard problems, probabilistic combinatorial optimization and on-line computation. He is the author of more than a 100 research papers and is a member of the editorial board of several international scientific journals.
