Graphs, Algorithms, and Optimization

Graphs, Algorithms, and Optimization
Author: William Kocay
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2017-09-20
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 135198912X

Graph theory offers a rich source of problems and techniques for programming and data structure development, as well as for understanding computing theory, including NP-Completeness and polynomial reduction. A comprehensive text, Graphs, Algorithms, and Optimization features clear exposition on modern algorithmic graph theory presented in a rigorous yet approachable way. The book covers major areas of graph theory including discrete optimization and its connection to graph algorithms. The authors explore surface topology from an intuitive point of view and include detailed discussions on linear programming that emphasize graph theory problems useful in mathematics and computer science. Many algorithms are provided along with the data structure needed to program the algorithms efficiently. The book also provides coverage on algorithm complexity and efficiency, NP-completeness, linear optimization, and linear programming and its relationship to graph algorithms. Written in an accessible and informal style, this work covers nearly all areas of graph theory. Graphs, Algorithms, and Optimization provides a modern discussion of graph theory applicable to mathematics, computer science, and crossover applications.

Graphs, Algorithms, and Optimization, Second Edition

Graphs, Algorithms, and Optimization, Second Edition
Author: William Kocay
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2016-11-03
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1482251256

The second edition of this popular book presents the theory of graphs from an algorithmic viewpoint. The authors present the graph theory in a rigorous, but informal style and cover most of the main areas of graph theory. The ideas of surface topology are presented from an intuitive point of view. We have also included a discussion on linear programming that emphasizes problems in graph theory. The text is suitable for students in computer science or mathematics programs. ?

Combinatorial Optimization and Graph Algorithms

Combinatorial Optimization and Graph Algorithms
Author: Takuro Fukunaga
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2017-10-02
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9811061475

Covering network designs, discrete convex analysis, facility location and clustering problems, matching games, and parameterized complexity, this book discusses theoretical aspects of combinatorial optimization and graph algorithms. Contributions are by renowned researchers who attended NII Shonan meetings on this essential topic. The collection contained here provides readers with the outcome of the authors’ research and productive meetings on this dynamic area, ranging from computer science and mathematics to operations research. Networks are ubiquitous in today's world: the Web, online social networks, and search-and-query click logs can lead to a graph that consists of vertices and edges. Such networks are growing so fast that it is essential to design algorithms to work for these large networks. Graph algorithms comprise an area in computer science that works to design efficient algorithms for networks. Here one can work on theoretical or practical problems where implementation of an algorithm for large networks is needed. In two of the chapters, recent results in graph matching games and fixed parameter tractability are surveyed. Combinatorial optimization is an intersection of operations research and mathematics, especially discrete mathematics, which deals with new questions and new problems, attempting to find an optimum object from a finite set of objects. Most problems in combinatorial optimization are not tractable (i.e., NP-hard). Therefore it is necessary to design an approximation algorithm for them. To tackle these problems requires the development and combination of ideas and techniques from diverse mathematical areas including complexity theory, algorithm theory, and matroids as well as graph theory, combinatorics, convex and nonlinear optimization, and discrete and convex geometry. Overall, the book presents recent progress in facility location, network design, and discrete convex analysis.

Graphs, Networks and Algorithms

Graphs, Networks and Algorithms
Author: Dieter Jungnickel
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 597
Release: 2013-06-29
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3662038226

Revised throughout Includes new chapters on the network simplex algorithm and a section on the five color theorem Recent developments are discussed

Gems of Combinatorial Optimization and Graph Algorithms

Gems of Combinatorial Optimization and Graph Algorithms
Author: Andreas S. Schulz
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2016-01-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319249711

Are you looking for new lectures for your course on algorithms, combinatorial optimization, or algorithmic game theory? Maybe you need a convenient source of relevant, current topics for a graduate student or advanced undergraduate student seminar? Or perhaps you just want an enjoyable look at some beautiful mathematical and algorithmic results, ideas, proofs, concepts, and techniques in discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science? Gems of Combinatorial Optimization and Graph Algorithms is a handpicked collection of up-to-date articles, carefully prepared by a select group of international experts, who have contributed some of their most mathematically or algorithmically elegant ideas. Topics include longest tours and Steiner trees in geometric spaces, cartograms, resource buying games, congestion games, selfish routing, revenue equivalence and shortest paths, scheduling, linear structures in graphs, contraction hierarchies, budgeted matching problems, and motifs in networks. This volume is aimed at readers with some familiarity of combinatorial optimization, and appeals to researchers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduate students alike.

Graphs and Algorithms

Graphs and Algorithms
Author: Michel Gondran
Publisher:
Total Pages: 680
Release: 1984-03-22
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN:

Generalities about graphs. The shortest path problem in a graph. Path algebras. Trees and arborescences. Flows and transportation networks. Flows with gains. Multicommodity flows. Matchings and b-matchings. Eulerian and hamiltonian walks. Matroids. Non-polynomial problems. Branch and bound algorithms. Approximate algorithms. Linear programming. Integer linear programming. Lagrangean relaxation and solving the dual problem. Dynamic programming. Minimum ratio problems.

Optimization Problems in Graph Theory

Optimization Problems in Graph Theory
Author: Boris Goldengorin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2018-09-27
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 331994830X

This book presents open optimization problems in graph theory and networks. Each chapter reflects developments in theory and applications based on Gregory Gutin’s fundamental contributions to advanced methods and techniques in combinatorial optimization. Researchers, students, and engineers in computer science, big data, applied mathematics, operations research, algorithm design, artificial intelligence, software engineering, data analysis, industrial and systems engineering will benefit from the state-of-the-art results presented in modern graph theory and its applications to the design of efficient algorithms for optimization problems. Topics covered in this work include: · Algorithmic aspects of problems with disjoint cycles in graphs · Graphs where maximal cliques and stable sets intersect · The maximum independent set problem with special classes · A general technique for heuristic algorithms for optimization problems · The network design problem with cut constraints · Algorithms for computing the frustration index of a signed graph · A heuristic approach for studying the patrol problem on a graph · Minimum possible sum and product of the proper connection number · Structural and algorithmic results on branchings in digraphs · Improved upper bounds for Korkel--Ghosh benchmark SPLP instances

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

Graph Algorithms in the Language of Linear Algebra

Graph Algorithms in the Language of Linear Algebra
Author: Jeremy Kepner
Publisher: SIAM
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780898719918

The current exponential growth in graph data has forced a shift to parallel computing for executing graph algorithms. Implementing parallel graph algorithms and achieving good parallel performance have proven difficult. This book addresses these challenges by exploiting the well-known duality between a canonical representation of graphs as abstract collections of vertices and edges and a sparse adjacency matrix representation. This linear algebraic approach is widely accessible to scientists and engineers who may not be formally trained in computer science. The authors show how to leverage existing parallel matrix computation techniques and the large amount of software infrastructure that exists for these computations to implement efficient and scalable parallel graph algorithms. The benefits of this approach are reduced algorithmic complexity, ease of implementation, and improved performance.