Handbook of Combinatorial Optimization

Panos M. Pardalos, Ding-Zhu Du, and Ronald Graham are prominent members of the operations research and mathematics communities. See supplementary PDF for additional biography material.

Introduction.- Part 1. General Methodology.- Analysis of Greedy Approximations.- Guillotine Partition in Geometric Optimization.- Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimization in Process Synthesis.- Connection between Nonlinear Programming and Discrete Optimization.- Interior Point Methods for Combinatorial Optimization.- Fractional Combinatorial Optimization.- Reformulation-Linearization Techniques for Discrete Optimization Problems.- Grobner Bases in Integer Programming.- Dynamical System Approaches to Combinatorial Optimization.- Semidefinite Relaxation, Multivariate Norma Distribution and Order Statistics.- Selected Algorithmic Techniques for Parallel Optimization.- Multispace Search for Combinatorial Optimization.- Randomized Parallel Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization.- Tabu Search.- Neural Network Approach for Combinatorial Optimization.- Data Correcting Algorithms in Combinatorial Optimization.- Probabilistic Verification and Non-Approximability.- Part 2. Classic Problems.- The Steiner ratio of $L_p$-planes.- The Maximum Clique Problem.- The Generalized Assignment Problem and Extension.- Linear Assignment Problems and Extensions.- Bin Packing Approximation Algorithms: Combinatorial Analysis.- Feedback Set Problems.- The Equitable Coloring of Graphs.- Approximate Algorithms and Heuristics for MAX-SAT.- Knapsack Problems.- Steiner Minimum Trees in E^3.- The Graph Coloring Problem: A Bibliographic Survey.- Steiner Minimum Trees: An Introduction, Parallel Computation, and Future Work.- Resource Allocation Problems.- Efficient Algorithms for Geometric Shortest Path Query Problem.- On-line Dominating Set Problems for Graphs.- Minimum Weight Triangulation.- A review of Machine Scheduling: Complexity, Algorithms and Approximability.- Algorithmic Aspects of Domination in Graphs.- The Quadratic Assignment Problem.- A Cognitive Algorithm for solving the Equal Circles Packing Problem.- Optimal Rectangular Partition.- Weighted Dominating Set in Unit Disk Graphs.- Part 3. Applications.- Applications of Set Covering, Set Packing and Set Partitioning Models: A Survey.- Combinatorial Optimization in Clustering.- Combinatorial Optimization and Coalition Games.- Optimization Problems in Optical Networks.- Optimization Applications in the Airline Industry.- Routing and Topology Embedding in Lightwave Networks.- Steiner Tree in Industry.- Connected Dominating Sets in Sensor Networks.- Network-based Model and Algorithms in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.- Steiner Tree in VISL Designs.- Steiner Tree in Coal Mining Industry.- Coverage Problems in sensor Networks.- Packing, Dominating and Wireless Networking.- Group Testing in Molecular Biology.- Index.