Paradigms for Fast Parallel Approximability Paperback / softback
by Josep (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona) Diaz, Maria (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona) Serna, Paul (University of Patras, Greece) Spirakis, Jacobo (Universitat Ulm, Germany) Toran
Part of the Cambridge International Series on Parallel Computation series
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Various problems in computer science are 'hard', that is NP-complete, and so not realistically computable; thus in order to solve them they have to be approximated.
This book is a survey of the basic techniques for approximating combinatorial problems using parallel algorithms.
Its core is a collection of techniques that can be used to provide parallel approximations for a wide range of problems (for example, flows, coverings, matchings, travelling salesman problems, graphs), but in order to make the book reasonably self-contained, the authors provide an introductory chapter containing the basic definitions and results.
A final chapter deals with problems that cannot be approximated, and the book is ended by an appendix that gives a convenient summary of the problems described in the book.
This is an up-to-date reference for research workers in the area of algorithms, but it can also be used for graduate courses in the subject.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:168 pages, 32 Line drawings, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:30/07/2009
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- ISBN:9780521117920
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:168 pages, 32 Line drawings, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:30/07/2009
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- ISBN:9780521117920
