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The.Algorithm.Design.Manual.Springer-Verlag.1998

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Contents<br />

■ All-Pairs Shortest Path<br />

■ War Story: Nothing but Nets<br />

■ War Story: Dialing for Documents<br />

■ Exercises<br />

❍ Combinatorial Search and Heuristic Methods<br />

■ Backtracking<br />

■ Constructing All Subsets<br />

■ Constructing All Permutations<br />

■ Constructing All Paths in a Graph<br />

■ Search Pruning<br />

■ Bandwidth Minimization<br />

■ War Story: Covering Chessboards<br />

■ Heuristic Methods<br />

■ Simulated Annealing<br />

■ Traveling Salesman Problem<br />

■ Maximum Cut<br />

■ Independent Set<br />

■ Circuit Board Placement<br />

■ Neural Networks<br />

■ Genetic <strong>Algorithm</strong>s<br />

■ War Story: Annealing Arrays<br />

■ Parallel <strong>Algorithm</strong>s<br />

■ War Story: Going Nowhere Fast<br />

■ Exercises<br />

❍ Intractable Problems and Approximations<br />

■ Problems and Reductions<br />

■ Simple Reductions<br />

■ Hamiltonian Cycles<br />

■ Independent Set and Vertex Cover<br />

■ Clique and Independent Set<br />

■ Satisfiability<br />

■ <strong>The</strong> <strong>The</strong>ory of NP-Completeness<br />

■ 3-Satisfiability<br />

■ Difficult Reductions<br />

■ Integer Programming<br />

■ Vertex Cover<br />

■ Other NP-Complete Problems<br />

■ <strong>The</strong> Art of Proving Hardness<br />

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