Combinatorial optimization. Polyhedra and efficiency (3 volumes)

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Alexander Schrijver

Publication date: 27 January 2003

Published in: Algorithms and Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)


90C35: Programming involving graphs or networks

68Q25: Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity

05-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to combinatorics

52B55: Computational aspects related to convexity

90C57: Polyhedral combinatorics, branch-and-bound, branch-and-cut

05C65: Hypergraphs

68R10: Graph theory (including graph drawing) in computer science

90C27: Combinatorial optimization

05B35: Combinatorial aspects of matroids and geometric lattices

90-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to operations research and mathematical programming


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