Tekijä: Viktor K. Prasanna (ed.); Sitharama Iyengar (ed.); Paul Spirakis (ed.); Matt Welsh (ed.) Kustantaja: Springer (2005) Saatavuus: Noin 16-19 arkipäivää
Tekijä: Samson Abramsky; Cyril Gavoille; Claude Kirchner; Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide; Paul Spirakis Kustantaja: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG (2010) Saatavuus: Noin 16-19 arkipäivää
Various problems in computer science are 'hard', that is NP-complete, and so not realistically computable; thus in order to solve them they have to be approximated. This book is a survey of the basic techniques for approximating combinatorial problems using parallel algorithms. Its core is a collection of techniques that can be used to provide parallel approximations for a wide range of problems (for example, flows, coverings, matchings, travelling salesman problems, graphs), but in order to make the book reasonably self-contained, the authors provide an introductory chapter containing the basic definitions and results. A final chapter deals with problems that cannot be approximated, and the book is ended by an appendix that gives a convenient summary of the problems described in the book. This is an up-to-date reference for research workers in the area of algorithms, but it can also be used for graduate courses in the subject.
