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Submodular functions and optimization /
The importance of submodular functions has been widely recognized in recent years in combinatorial optimization. This is the first book devoted to the exposition of the theory of submodular functions from an elementary technical level to an advanced one. A unifying view of the theory is shown by mea...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York : New York, N.Y., U.S.A. :
North-Holland ; Distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co.,
1991.
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| Colección: | Annals of discrete mathematics ;
47. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The importance of submodular functions has been widely recognized in recent years in combinatorial optimization. This is the first book devoted to the exposition of the theory of submodular functions from an elementary technical level to an advanced one. A unifying view of the theory is shown by means of base polyhedra and duality for submodular and supermodular systems. Among the subjects treated are: neoflows (submodular flows, independent flows, polymatroidal flows), submodular analysis (submodular programs, duality, Lagrangian functions, principal partitions), nonlinear optimization with submodular constraints (lexicographically optimal bases, fair resource allocation). Special emphasis is placed on the constructive aspects of the theory, which lead to practical, efficient algorithms. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 270 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-264) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780444885562 0444885560 9780080867878 0080867871 1281783072 9781281783073 |