Fast Parallel Algorithms for Graph Matching Problems

ISBN-13: 9780198501626 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 224 str.

Marek Karpinski; Wojciech Rytter

Opis

The matching problem is central to graph theory and the theory of algorithms. This book provides a comprehensive and straightforward introduction to the basic methods for designing efficient parallel algorithms for graph matching problems. Written for students at the beginning graduate level, the exposition is largely self-contained and example-driven; prerequisites have been kept to a minimum by including relevant background material. The book contains full details of several new techniques and will be of interest to researchers in computer science, operations research, discrete mathematics, and electrical engineering. The main theoretical tools are presented in three independent chapters, devoted to combinatorial tools, probabilistic tools, and algebraic tools. One of the goals of the book is to show how these three approaches can be combined to develop efficient parallel algorithms. The book represents a meeting point of interesting algorithmic techniques and opens up new algebraic and geometric areas.

Recenzje

'The book presents for the first time interesting and important results on matching ( and vertex packing) in parallel, which heretofore existed only in scattered journal articles, and hence it should now become the standard reference for anyone who wishes to work in the area' SIAM Review