The Steiner tree problem : a tour through graphs, algorithms, and complexity
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The Steiner tree problem : a tour through graphs, algorithms, and complexity
(Advanced lectures in mathematics)
Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, 2002
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Includes bibilography and index
Description and Table of Contents
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In recent years, algorithmic graph theory has become increasingly important as a link between discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science. This textbook introduces students of mathematics and computer science to the interrelated fields of graphs theory, algorithms and complexity.
Table of Contents
1 Basics I: Graphs.- 1.1 Introduction to graph theory.- 1.2 Excursion: Random graphs.- 2 Basics II: Algorithms.- 2.1 Introduction to algorithms.- 2.2 Excursion: Fibonacci heaps and amortized time.- 3 Basics III: Complexity.- 3.1 Introduction to complexity theory.- 3.2 Excursion: More NP-complete problems.- 4 Special Terminal Sets.- 4.1 The shortest path problem.- 4.2 The minimum spanning tree problem.- 4.3 Excursion: Matroids and the greedy algorithm.- 5 Exact Algorithms.- 5.1 The enumeration algorithm.- 5.2 The Dreyfus-Wagner algorithm.- 5.3 Excursion: Dynamic programming.- 6 Approximation Algorithms.- 6.1 A simple algorithm with performance ratio 2.- 6.2 Improving the time complexity.- 6.3 Excursion: Machine scheduling.- 7 More on Approximation Algorithms.- 7.1 Minimum spanning trees in hypergraphs.- 7.2 Improving the performance ratio I.- 7.3 Excursion: The complexity of optimization problems.- 8 Randomness Helps.- 8.1 Probabilistic complexity classes.- 8.2 Improving the performance ratio II.- 8.3 An almost always optimal algorithm.- 8.4 Excursion: Primality and cryptography.- 9 Limits of Approximability.- 9.1 Reducing optimization problems.- 9.2 APX-completeness.- 9.3 Excursion: Probabilistically checkable proofs.- 10 Geometric Steiner Problems.- 10.1 A characterization of rectilinear Steiner minimum trees.- 10.2 The Steiner ratios.- 10.3 An almost linear time approximation scheme.- 10.4 Excursion: The Euclidean Steiner problem.- Symbol Index.
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