Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Theoretical foundations; 3. Bipartite matching algorithms; 4. Linear sum assignment problem: sequential algorithms; 5. Further results on the linear sum assignment problem; 6. Other types of linear assignment problems; 7. Quadratic assignment problems: formulations and bounds; 8. Quadratic assignment problems: algorithms; 9. Other types of quadratic assignment problems; 10. Multi-index assignment problems; Bibliography; Author index; Subject index.