Integer and Combinatorial Optimization

by Laurence A. Wolsey, Laurence A. Wolsey

Rave reviews for INTEGER AND COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION

"This book provides an excellent introduction and survey of traditional fields of combinatorial optimization . . . It is indeed one of the best and most complete texts on combinatorial optimization . . . available. [And] with more than 700 entries, [it] has quite an exhaustive reference list."-Optima

"A unifying approach to optimization problems is to formulate them like linear programming problems, while restricting some or all of the variables to the integers. This book is an encyclopedic resource for such formulations, as well as for understanding the structure of and solving the resulting integer programming problems."-Computing Reviews

"[This book] can serve as a basis for various graduate courses on discrete optimization as well as a reference book for researchers and practitioners."-Mathematical Reviews

"This comprehensive and wide-ranging book will undoubtedly become a standard reference book for all those in the field of combinatorial optimization."-Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society

"This text should be required reading for anybody who intends to do research in this area or even just to keep abreast of developments."-Times Higher Education Supplement, London

Also of interest . . .

INTEGER PROGRAMMING Laurence A. Wolsey Comprehensive and self-contained, this intermediate-level guide to integer programming provides readers with clear, up-to-date explanations on why some problems are difficult to solve, how techniques can be reformulated to give better results, and how mixed integer programming systems can be used more effectively. 1998 (0-471-28366-5) 260 pp.

Genres: Mathematics

784 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1988

Reviews

[Albert · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not a readable book since the proofs contains many jumps and notation abuse without any clarification. Might be better for a reference book instead of a book for learning

[dead letter office · Rating 5 out of 5]

rough reading, but it's THE reference. for a more readable introduction to this stuff try the cook/cunningham/pulleyblank/whoever book. for something easier on the same subject, try wolsey's book on integer programming.

Goodreads should probably get with the program and put Nemhauser's name on this thing, or he's gonna be all over your asses with a lawsuit. Wolsey. Please.

[Ehsan · Rating 5 out of 5]

classic book on COP and IP.
A must have for every researcher in the field of discrete optimization, specially for grads in maths, OR, and Eng.

[Haeder Aljoburey]

this book is fundamental of discreet optimization