Degrees incorporating this pedagocial element :
Description
The aim of this course is to provide a broad knowledge of fundamental problems in Combinatorial Optimization to show their algorithmic solutions and to derive min-max results on them. In order to achieve this goal a new object called a polyhedron is introduced. This polyhedral approach helps to shed new light on some classic results of Combinatorial Optimization.
Syllabus: Study of polyhedra associated to problems of Combinatorial Optimization ; Theory of blocking polyhedra ; Connectivity: shortest paths, spanning trees and spanning arborescences of minimum weight ; Flows: Edmonds-Karp Algorithm, Goldberg-Tarjan Algorithm, minimum cost flows ; Matchings: Hungarian method, Edmonds' Algorithm, Chinese postman problem; Matroids: greedy algorithm, intersection of two matroids ; Graph coloring ; Applications coming from various areas of Operations Research.
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In brief
Period : Semester 9Credits : 6
Number of hours
- Lectures (CM) : 36h
Location(s) : Grenoble
Language(s) : English
Contact(s)
Zoltan Szigeti
