Analysis and Design of Algorithms for Combinatorial Problems - Softcover

9780444558046: Analysis and Design of Algorithms for Combinatorial Problems

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0444558047 ISBN 13: 9780444558046

Publisher: North Holland, 2012

Combinatorial problems have been from the very beginning part of the history of mathematics. By the Sixties, the main classes of combinatorial problems had been defined. During that decade, a great number of research contributions in graph theory had been produced, which laid the foundations for most of the research in graph optimization in the following years. During the Seventies, a large number of special purpose models were developed. The impressive growth of this field since has been strongly determined by the demand of applications and influenced by the technological increases in computing power and the availability of data and software. The availability of such basic tools has led to the feasibility of the exact or well approximate solution of large scale realistic combinatorial optimization problems and has created a number of new combinatorial problems.

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