Discrete Optimization
by Guido Schaefer
Publisher: Utrecht University 2012
Number of pages: 97
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From the table of contents: Preliminaries (Optimization Problems); Minimum Spanning Trees; Matroids; Shortest Paths; Maximum Flows; Minimum Cost Flows; Matchings; Integrality of Polyhedra; Complexity Theory; Approximation Algorithms.
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