Papadimitriou, Christos H.

Combinatorial optimization : algorithms and complexity / Christos H. Papadimitriou, Kenneth Steiglitz - xvi, 496 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Originally published: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c1982. With new pref



Optimization problems -- Simplex algorithm -- Duality -- Computational considerations for the simplex algorithm -- Primal-dual algorithm -- Primal-dual algorithms for max-flow and shortest path: ford-fulkerson and dijkstra -- Primal-dual algorithms for min-cost flow -- Algorithms and complexity -- Efficient algorithms for the max-flow problem -- Algorithms for matching -- Weighted matching -- Spanning trees and matroids -- Integer linear programming -- A cutting-plane algorithm for integer linear programs -- NP-complete problems -- More about NP-completeness -- Approximation algorithms -- Branch-and-bound and dynamic programming -- Local search

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Mathematical optimization
Combinatorial optimization
Computational complexity

QA402.5 / .P37 1998