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Product Details: Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science, Volume 3

Edited by:	A. H. Rinnooy-Kan, Jr. E. G. Coffman, Jan K. Lenstra
Contributor:	J. K Lenstra
Author:	E. G. Coffman, Rinnooy
Format:	Hardcover: 682 pages.
Publisher:	North-Holland (10/01/1992)
ISBN:	0444880976
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Publisher Notes: Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science, Volume 3

Preface

Ch. 1 Computer Systems - Past, Present & Future
   by H.J. Sips 1

2 A bit of history 1

3 The basic computer structure 6

4 The influence of advances in technology 11

5 Current and future developments 18

Ch. 2 Programming Languages
   by H.E. Bal, D. Grune 31

2 Algorithmic languages 41

3 Object-oriented languages 58

4 Functional languages 63

5 Logic languages 70

6 Parallel and distributed languages 76

7 Real-time languages 84

8 Literature 87

Ch. 3 Operating Systems - The State of the Art
   by A.S. Tanenbaum 91

1 What is an operating system? 91

2 A brief history of operating systems 93

3 An example operating system - UNIX 97

4 Network operating systems 103

5 Distributed operating systems 111

Ch. 4 Databases and Database Management
   by G. Vossen 133

2 Relational databases 148

3 Transaction management 168

4 Current directions 179

Ch. 5 Software Engineering
   by R.T. Yeh, M.M. Tanik, W. Rossak, F. Cheng, P.A. Ng 195

1 Introduction and historical background 195

2 The software life cycle 198

3 Elements of software development methodology 206

4 Language issues 221

5 Case 225

6 Alternative paradigms for software evolution 229

Ch. 6 A Survey of Matrix Computations
   by C. Van Loan 247

1 Some tools of the trade 249

2 A catalog of matrix factorizations 265

3 High performance matrix computations 293

Ch. 7 Fundamental Algorithms and Data Structures
   by J. van Leeuwen, P. Widmayer 323

2 Dictionaries 329

3 Priority queues 347

4 Set union algorithms 359

Ch. 8 Design (with Analysis) of Efficient Algorithms
   by D. Gusfield 375

2 Maximum network flow on a sequential machine 376

3 Ford-Fulkerson leads 'naturally' to Dinits 381

4 The breakdown of phases: Goldberg's preflow-push algorithm 391

5 Parametric flow: The value of amortizing across phases 397

6 Computing edge connectivity: The amortization theme writ small 402

7 Matching: Optimal, greedy and optimal-greedy approaches 406

8 Parallel network flow in O(n-superscript 2 log n) time 412

9 Distributed algorithms 416

10 Many-for-one results 419

11 The power of preprocessing: The least common ancestor problem 426

12 Randomized algorithms for matching problems 429

13 A matching problem from biology illustrating dynamic programming 438

14 Min-cost flow: Strong versus weak polynomial time 440

15 Weighted node cover: Approximation algorithms based on network flow 445

16 Summary and thesis 448

Ch. 9 Computational Complexity
   by L.J. Stockmeyer 455

2 Basic definitions 458

3 NP-complete problems 471

4 Coping with NP-complete problems - Related theory 484

5 The world beyond NP 489

6 Approaches to the P vs. NP question 503

7 Parallel computation 506

Ch. 10 Computer System Models
   by I. Mitrani 519

2 Priority scheduling strategies 520

3 Processor-sharing strategies 528

4 Achievable performance in single-server systems 535

5 Interactive virtual memory systems 543

6 Secondary storage devices 550

Ch. 11 Mathematical Programming Systems
   by J.A. Tomlin, J.S. Welch 561

2 The standard optimizer interface 562

3 Model description languages 569

4 MPS modeling concepts 578

5 Practical implementations of the simplex method 580

6 Interior point methods 587

7 Special structure linear programs 593

8 Nonlinear programming 594

9 Integer programming 595

Ch. 12 User Interfaces
   by C.V. Jones 603

2 Framework for OR projects 605

3 Human information processing capabilities 609

4 User interface theory, design and implementation 612

5 Hardware 629

6 Software 633

7 User interfaces and OR 640

8 Decision support systems 647

9 Modeling languages for mathematical programming 650

10 Future directions for user interfaces 655

Subject Index 669

Contents of the Previous Volumes 681

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