Fast Parallel Algorithms for Graph Matching Problems (Oxford Lecture Series in Mathematics and Its Applications) (Volume 9)

Karpinski, M and Rytter, W

ISBN 10: 0198501625 / ISBN 13: 9780198501626

Published by Clarendon Press, 1998

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Volume 9. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:9780198501626.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fast Parallel Algorithms for Graph Matching Problems (Oxford Lecture Series in Mathematics and Its Applications) (Volume 9)
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198501625
• ISBN 13: 9780198501626
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mathematics

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Synopsis

The matching problem is one of the central problems in graph theory as well as in the theory of algorithms and their applications. This book will provide the reader with a comprehensive and straightforward introduction to the basic methods of designing efficient parallel algorithms for graph matching problems. The text is written for students at the beginning graduate level. The exposition is mostly 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 should also be of interest to research workers in computer science, operations research, discrete mathematics, and electrical engineering. The main theoretical tools are combined into three independent chapters, devoted to combinatorial tools, probabilistic tools, and algebraic tools. One of the main goals of the book is to bring together these three approaches and highlight how their combination works in the development of efficient parallel algorithms. The reader will be provided with a simple and transparent presentation of a variety of interesting algorithms, including many examples and illustrations. The combination of different approaches makes the matching problem and its applications an attractive and fascinating subject. It is hoped that the book represents a meeting point of interesting algorithmic techniques and opens up new algebraic and geometric areas. Marek Karpinski is Chair Professor of Computer Science at the University of Bonn. Wojciech Rytter is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Warsaw and at the University of Liverpool.

Review

This book provides the graduate students with a comprehensive and straightforward introduction to the basic methods of designing efficient parallel algorithms for graph matching problems. (Technique/Scientifique June 1998)

'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