[PDF] Approximation Algorithms For Np Hard Problems eBook

Author : Dorit S. Hochbaum
Publisher : Course Technology
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 31,90 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Computers
ISBN :

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This is the first book to fully address the study of approximation algorithms as a tool for coping with intractable problems. With chapters contributed by leading researchers in the field, this book introduces unifying techniques in the analysis of approximation algorithms. APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS FOR NP-HARD PROBLEMS is intended for computer scientists and operations researchers interested in specific algorithm implementations, as well as design tools for algorithms. Among the techniques discussed: the use of linear programming, primal-dual techniques in worst-case analysis, semidefinite programming, computational geometry techniques, randomized algorithms, average-case analysis, probabilistically checkable proofs and inapproximability, and the Markov Chain Monte Carlo method. The text includes a variety of pedagogical features: definitions, exercises, open problems, glossary of problems, index, and notes on how best to use the book.

Author : Vijay V. Vazirani
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 39,25 MB
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3662045656

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Covering the basic techniques used in the latest research work, the author consolidates progress made so far, including some very recent and promising results, and conveys the beauty and excitement of work in the field. He gives clear, lucid explanations of key results and ideas, with intuitive proofs, and provides critical examples and numerous illustrations to help elucidate the algorithms. Many of the results presented have been simplified and new insights provided. Of interest to theoretical computer scientists, operations researchers, and discrete mathematicians.

Author : Michael Jünger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 16,44 MB
Release : 2003-07-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 3540364781

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This book is dedicated to Jack Edmonds in appreciation of his ground breaking work that laid the foundations for a broad variety of subsequent results achieved in combinatorial optimization.The main part consists of 13 revised full papers on current topics in combinatorial optimization, presented at Aussois 2001, the Fifth Aussois Workshop on Combinatorial Optimization, March 5-9, 2001, and dedicated to Jack Edmonds.Additional highlights in this book are an account of an Aussois 2001 special session dedicated to Jack Edmonds including a speech given by William R. Pulleyblank as well as newly typeset versions of three up-to-now hardly accessible classical papers:- Submodular Functions, Matroids, and Certain Polyhedranbsp;nbsp; by Jack Edmonds- Matching: A Well-Solved Class of Integer Linear Programsnbsp;nbsp; by Jack Edmonds and Ellis L. Johnson- Theoretical Improvements in Algorithmic Efficiency for Network Flow Problemsnbsp;nbsp; by Jack Edmonds and Richard M. Karp.

Author : Juraj Hromkovič
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 46,97 MB
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3662052695

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Algorithmic design, especially for hard problems, is more essential for success in solving them than any standard improvement of current computer tech nologies. Because of this, the design of algorithms for solving hard problems is the core of current algorithmic research from the theoretical point of view as well as from the practical point of view. There are many general text books on algorithmics, and several specialized books devoted to particular approaches such as local search, randomization, approximation algorithms, or heuristics. But there is no textbook that focuses on the design of algorithms for hard computing tasks, and that systematically explains, combines, and compares the main possibilities for attacking hard algorithmic problems. As this topic is fundamental for computer science, this book tries to close this gap. Another motivation, and probably the main reason for writing this book, is connected to education. The considered area has developed very dynami cally in recent years and the research on this topic discovered several profound results, new concepts, and new methods. Some of the achieved contributions are so fundamental that one can speak about paradigms which should be in cluded in the education of every computer science student. Unfortunately, this is very far from reality. This is because these paradigms are not sufficiently known in the computer science community, and so they are insufficiently com municated to students and practitioners.

Author : David P. Williamson
Publisher :
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 17,14 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Approximation theory
ISBN : 9781139077750

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Designed as a textbook for graduate courses on algorithms, this book presents efficient algorithms that find provably near-optimal solutions.

Author : Giorgio Ausiello
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 42,62 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3642584128

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This book documents the state of the art in combinatorial optimization, presenting approximate solutions of virtually all relevant classes of NP-hard optimization problems. The wealth of problems, algorithms, results, and techniques make it an indispensible source of reference for professionals. The text smoothly integrates numerous illustrations, examples, and exercises.

Author : Jose Rolim
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 14,1 MB
Release : 1997-06-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540632481

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Astronomy is the oldest and most fundamental of the natural sciences. From the early beginnings of civilization astronomers have attempted to explain not only what the Universe is and how it works, but also how it started, how it evolved to the present day, and how it will develop in the future. The author, a well-known astronomer himself, describes the evolution of astronomical ideas, briefly discussing most of the instrumental developments. Using numerous figures to elucidate the mechanisms involved, the book starts with the astronomical ideas of the Egyptian and Mesopotamian philosophers, moves on to the Greek period, and then to the golden age of astronomy, i.e. to Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and Newton, and ends with modern theories of cosmology. Written with undergraduate students in mind, this book gives a fascinating survey of astronomical thinking.

Author : Juraj Hromkovič
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 14,26 MB
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3662046164

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An introduction to the methods of designing algorithms for hard computing tasks, concentrating mainly on approximate, randomized, and heuristic algorithms, and on the theoretical and experimental comparison of these approaches according to the requirements of the practice. This is the first book to systematically explain and compare all the main possibilities of attacking hard computing problems. It also closes the gap between theory and practice by providing at once a graduate textbook and a handbook for practitioners dealing with hard computing problems.