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Submodular Functions and Optimization

By Satoru Fujishige (Eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Elsevier
Year
2005
ISBN
978-0-444-52086-9, 0444520864
Open Library ID
OL17188352M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
16 MB (16384443 bytes)
Series
Annals of discrete mathematics 58
Edition
2nd ed
Pages
1-395\411
Library
mexmat
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11

Description

It has widely been recognized that submodular functions play essential roles in efficiently solvable combinatorial optimization problems. Since the publication of the 1st edition of this book fifteen years ago, submodular functions have been showing further increasing importance in optimization, combinatorics, discrete mathematics, algorithmic computer science, and algorithmic economics, and there have been made remarkable developments of theory and algorithms in submodular functions. The 2nd edition of the book supplements the 1st edition with a lot of remarks and with new two chapters: "Submodular Function Minimization" and "Discrete Convex Analysis. The present 2nd edition is still a unique book on submodular functions, which is essential to students and researchers interested in combinatorial optimization, discrete mathematics, and discrete algorithms in the fields of mathematics, operations research, computer science, and economics.

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