Combinatorial Optimization

Bernhard Korte is professor of operations research and director of the Research Institute for Discrete Mathematics at the University of Bonn. He founded the Arithmeum in Bonn and received numerous awards, including a honorary doctoral degree and the "Staatspreis NRW". His research interests include combinatorial optimization and chip design.Jens Vygen is professor of discrete mathematics at the University of Bonn and principal investigator of the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics. He also co-authored the textbook “Algorithmic Mathematics” and has served as editor of several books and journals. His research interests include combinatorial optimization and algorithms for chip design.

• 1 Introduction.- 2 Graphs.- 3 Linear Programming.- 4 Linear Programming Algorithms.- 5 Integer Programming.- 6 Spanning Trees and Arborescences.- 7 Shortest Paths.- 8 Network Flows.- 9 Minimum Cost Flows.- 10 Maximum Matchings.- 11 Weighted Matching.- 12 b-Matchings and T -Joins.- 13 Matroids.- 14 Generalizations of Matroids.- 15 NP-Completeness.- 16 Approximation Algorithms.- 17 The Knapsack Problem.- 18 Bin-Packing.- 19 Multicommodity Flows and Edge-Disjoint Paths.- 20 Network Design Problems.- 21 The Traveling Salesman Problem.- 22 Facility Location.- Indices.