Integer and Combinatorial Optimization

Rave reviews for INTEGER AND COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATIONThis book provides an excellent introduction and survey oftraditional fields of combinatorial optimization . . . It is indeedone of the best and most complete texts on combinatorialoptimization . . . available. [And] with more than 700 entries,[it] has quite an exhaustive reference list.-OptimaA unifying approach to optimization problems is to formulate themlike linear programming problems, while restricting some or all ofthe variables to the integers. This book is an encyclopedicresource for such formulations, as well as for understanding thestructure of and solving the resulting integer programmingproblems.-Computing Reviews[This book] can serve as a basis for various graduate courses ondiscrete optimization as well as a reference book for researchersand practitioners.-Mathematical ReviewsThis comprehensive and wide-ranging book will undoubtedly become astandard reference book for all those in the field of combinatorialoptimization.-Bulletin of the London Mathematical SocietyThis text should be required reading for anybody who intends to doresearch in this area or even just to keep abreast ofdevelopments.-Times Higher Education Supplement, LondonAlso of interest . . .INTEGER PROGRAMMING Laurence A. Wolsey Comprehensive andself-contained, this intermediate-level guide to integerprogramming provides readers with clear, up-to-date explanations onwhy some problems are difficult to solve, how techniques can bereformulated to give better results, and how mixed integerprogramming systems can be used more effectively. 1998(0-471-28366-5) 260 pp.