This book contains papers presented at the Workshop on Parallel Processing of Discrete Optimization Problems held at DIMACS in April 1994. The contents cover a wide spectrum of the most recent algorithms and applications in parallel processing of discrete optimization and related problems. Topics include parallel branch and bound algorithms, scalability, load balancing, parallelism and irregular data structures and scheduling task graphs on parallel machines. Applications include parallel algorithms for solving satisfiability problems, location problems, linear programming, quadratic and linear assignment problems. This book would be suitable as a textbook in advanced courses on parallel algorithms and combinatorial optimization.

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).

Readership

Graduate students and researchers in computer science, mathematics, engineering, and operations research.

Table of Contents

• C. Busch and M. Mavronicolas -- Proving correctness for balancing networks
• A. Clementi, J. Rolim, and L. Kucera -- A note on parallel randomized algorithms for searching problems
• R. Corrêa and A. Ferreira -- Modeling parallel branch-and-bound for asynchronous implementations
• O. Damberg and A. Migdalas -- A data parallel space dilation algorithm for the concentrator location problem
• A. Gerasoulis, J. Jiao, and T. Yang -- A multistage approach for scheduling task graphs on parallel machines
• J. Gu -- Parallel algorithms for satisfiability (SAT) problem
• G. Karypis, A. Gupta, and V. Kumar -- Experiences with a parallel formulation of an interior point algorithm
• P. S. Laursen -- Experiences with a synchronous parallel branch and bound algorithm
• N. R. Mahapatra and S. Dutt -- New anticipatory load balancing strategies for parallel \(A^\ast\) algorithms
• B. Mikolajczak -- A parallel algorithm for computing all homomorphisms of deterministic finite automata
• T. M. Niccum, J. Srivastava, B. Himatsingka, and J. Li -- Query optimization and processing in parallel databases
• S. Pande and K. Psarris -- Scheduling acyclic task graphs on distributed memory parallel architectures
• A. Reinefeld -- Scalability of massively parallel depth-first search
• C. Roucairol -- On irregular data structures and asynchronous parallel branch and bound algorithms
• C. Schütt and J. Clausen -- Parallel algorithms for the assignment problem--An experimental evaluation of three distributed algorithms
• J. M. Smith and K. Xu -- Serial & parallel algorithms for QSP problems