Fast Parallel Algorithms for Graph Matching Problems

Marek Karpinski

ISBN 10: 0198501625 / ISBN 13: 9780198501626

Published by Oxford University Press (UK) Mai 1998, 1998

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Neuware - 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, discretemathematics, 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 parallelalgorithms. The book represents a meeting point of interesting algorithmic techniques and opens up new algebraic and geometric areas.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fast Parallel Algorithms for Graph Matching Problems
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK) Mai 1998
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198501625
• ISBN 13: 9780198501626
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu

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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