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Network Design: Connectivity and Facilities Location
Edited by: Panos M. Pardalos, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, and Dingzhu Du, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
A co-publication of the AMS and DIMACS.
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DIMACS: Series in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science
1998; 461 pp; hardcover
Volume: 40
ISBN-10: 0-8218-0834-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-8218-0834-4
List Price: US$96 Member Price: US$76.80
Order Code: DIMACS/40

Connectivity and facilities location are two important topics in network design, with applications in data communication, transportation, production planning, and VLSI designs. There are two issues concerning these topics: design and optimization. They involve combinatorial design and combinatorial optimization. This volume features talks presented at an interdisciplinary research workshop held at DIMACS in April 1997. The workshop was attended by leading theorists, algorithmists, and practitioners working on network design problems.

Finding the solution of design problems and the optimal or approximate solution of the related optimization problem are challenging tasks because no polynomial time algorithms are known. Such problems include some variations of Steiner tree problems (such as multiple-connected Steiner network, independent flow problem, and subset-interconnection designs), topology network design, nonlinear assignment problems (such as quadratic assignment problems), problems in facilities location and allocation, and network problems appearing in VLSI design.

The focus of this book is on combinatorial, algorithmic, and applicational aspects of these problems. The volume would be suitable as a textbook for advanced courses in computer science, mathematics, engineering, and operations research.

Co-published with the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science beginning with Volume 8. Volumes 1-7 were co-published with the Association for Computer Machinery (ACM).

Graduate students, research mathematicians, computer scientists and operations researchers working on network design problems.

• S. Arora -- Nearly linear time approximation schemes for Euclidean TSP and other geometric problems
• R. Battiti and A. Bertossi -- Differential greedy for the 0-1 equicut problem
• M. Brazil, D. A. Thomas, and J. F. Weng -- Gradient-constrained minimal Steiner trees
• S.-W. Cheng -- The Steiner tree problem for terminals on the boundary of a rectilinear polygon
• D. Cieslik -- Using Hadwiger numbers in network design
• C. Duin -- Reducing the graphical Steiner problem with a sensitivity test
• A. Eisenblätter -- A frequency assignment problem in cellular phone networks
• T. Erlebach, K. Jansen, C. Kaklamanis, and P. Persiano -- An optimal greedy algorithm for wavelength allocation in directed tree networks
• K. Holmqvist, A. Migdalas, and P. M. Pardalos -- A GRASP algorithm for the single source uncapacitated minimum concave-cost network flow problem
• K. Jansen -- Approximation results for the optimum cost chromatic partition problem
• M. Karpinski and A. Zelikovsky -- Approximating dense cases of covering problems
• S. Guha and S. Khuller -- Connected facility location problems
• N. Deo and N. Kumar -- Constrained spanning tree problems: Approximate methods and parallel computation
• W.-J. Li and J. M. Smith -- Star, grid, ring topologies in facility location & network design
• S. O. Krumke, M. V. Marathe, H. Noltemeier, R. Ravi, and S. S. Ravi -- Network improvement problems
• M. V. Marathe, R. Ravi, and R. Sundaram -- Improved results on service-constrained network design problems
• R. A. Murphey, P. M. Pardalos, and L. Pitsoulis -- A greedy randomized adaptive search procedure for the multitarget multisensor tracking problem
• W. B. Powell and Z.-L. Chen -- A generalized threshold algorithm for the shortest path problem with time windows
• J. D. P. Rolim and L. Trevisan -- A case study of de-randomization methods for combinatorial approximation algorithms
• S. Voß and K. Gutenschwager -- A chunking based genetic algorithm for the Steiner tree problem in graphs
• D. M. Warme -- A new exact algorithm for rectilinear Steiner trees
• P.-J. Wan and A. Pavan -- A scalable TWDM lightwave network based on generalized de Bruijn digraph
• J. F. Weng -- A new model of generalized Steiner trees and 3-coordinate systems
• R. Wessäly -- A model for network design
• C. S. Adjiman, C. A. Schweiger, and C. A. Floudas -- Nonlinear and mixed-integer optimization in chemical process network systems
• M. Brazil, J. H. Rubinstein, D. A. Thomas, J. F. Weng, and N. C. Wormald -- Shortest networks on spheres
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