Jorgen Bang-Jensen, Gregory Z. Gutin

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Digraphs (eBook, PDF)

Theory, Algorithms and Applications

Beschreibung

Graph theory is a very popular area of discrete mathematics with not only numerous theoretical developments, but also countless applications to prac tical problems. As a research area, graph theory is still relatively young, but it is maturing rapidly with many deep results having been discovered over the last couple of decades. The theory of graphs can be roughly partitioned into two branches: the areas of undirected graphs and directed graphs (digraphs). Even though both areas have numerous important applications, for various reasons, undirected graphs have been studied much more extensively than directed graphs. One of the reasons is that undirected graphs form in a sense a special class of directed graphs (symmetric digraphs) and hence problems that can be for mulated for both directed and undirected graphs are often easier for the latter. Another reason is that, unlike for the case of undirected graphs, for which there are several important books covering both classical and recent results, no previous book covers more than a small fraction of the results obtained on digraphs within the last 25 years. Typically, digraphs are consid ered only in one chapter or by a few elementary results scattered throughout the book. Despite all this, the theory of directed graphs has developed enormously within the last three decades. There is an extensive literature on digraphs (more than 3000 papers). Many of these papers contain, not only interesting theoretical results, but also important algorithms as well as applications.

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• Verlag: Springer London
• Seitenzahl: 754
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781447138860
• Artikelnr.: 44178502

Rezensionen

From the reviews: "Digraphs (directed graphs) are a long-standing and important field of graph theory. Nevertheless, this is the first comprehensive monograph devoted to the subject. As a handbook, it addresses various groups of readers (students as well as researchers, and from various areas of applications). Throughout, because of their importance for applications, emphasis is on algorithms (in form of constructive proofs whenever possible). ... a valuable and indispensable reference for many years to come. Readers and users will be thankful!" (P. Schmitt, Monatshefte für Mathematik, Vol. 141 (1), 2004) From the reviews of the second edition: "This is a very comprehensive volume on directed graphs and related topics. ... an excellent

reference. ... the book will be useful not just for researchers focusing on digraphs, but also for everyone ... . an extensive list of conjectures and open questions is included in every chapter. These are typically very well presented and easy to understand." (Miklós Bóna, MAA Online, February, 2009) "The first edition of this book was published in 2000 ... . The area has continued to develop and this reorganized and updated edition contains an additional six chapters ... . there is a strong emphasis on algorithms, and constructive proofs are given whenever possible. There are more than 650 exercises and 150 open problems and conjectures. ... the bibliography contains 934 items and the author index contains 740 names. This book would be a valuable resource for anyone interested in digraphs and their applications." (J. W. Moon, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1170, 2009)