Are you looking for new lectures for your course on algorithms, combinatorial optimization, or algorithmic game theory? Maybe you need a convenient source of relevant, current topics for a graduate student or advanced undergraduate student seminar? Or perhaps you just want an enjoyable look at some beautiful mathematical and algorithmic results, ideas, proofs, concepts, and techniques in discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science? Gems of Combinatorial Optimization and Graph Algorithms is a handpicked collection of up-to-date articles, carefully prepared by a select group of international experts, who have contributed some of their most mathematically or algorithmically elegant ideas. Topics include longest tours and Steiner trees in geometric spaces, cartograms, resource buying games, congestion games, selfish routing, revenue equivalence and shortest paths, scheduling, linear structures in graphs, contraction hierarchies, budgeted matching problems, and motifs in networks. This volume is aimed at readers with some familiarity of combinatorial optimization, and appeals to researchers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduate students alike.

Are you looking for new lectures for your course on algorithms, combinatorial optimization, or algorithmic game theory? Maybe you need a convenient source of relevant, current topics for a graduate student or advanced undergraduate student seminar? Or perhaps you just want an enjoyable look at some beautiful mathematical and algorithmic results, ideas, proofs, concepts, and techniques in discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science? Gems of Combinatorial Optimization and Graph Algorithms is a handpicked collection of up-to-date articles, carefully prepared by a select group of international experts, who have contributed some of their most mathematically or algorithmically elegant ideas. Topics include longest tours and Steiner trees in geometric spaces, cartograms, resource buying games, congestion games, selfish routing, revenue equivalence and shortest paths, scheduling, linear structures in graphs, contraction hierarchies, budgeted matching problems, and motifs in networks. This volume is aimed at readers with some familiarity of combinatorial optimization, and appeals to researchers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduate students alike.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22st Annual European Symposium on Algorithms, ESA 2014, held in Wroclaw, Poland, in September 2014, as part of ALGO 2014. The 69 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 269 initial submissions: 57 out of 221 in Track A, Design and Analysis, and 12 out of 48 in Track B, Engineering and Applications. The papers present original research in the areas of design and mathematical analysis of algorithms; engineering, experimental analysis, and real-world applications of algorithms and data structures.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization, IPCO 2002, held in Cambridge, MA, USA, in May 2002.The 33 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 110 submissions. Among the topics covered are scaling algorithms, flow algorithms, combinatorial optimization algorithms, approximate TSP solutions, graph computations, algorithmic geometry, mixed integer programming, network design, logistic scheduling, constraint solving, resource allocation, matching algorithms, and matroid intersection algorithms.