Network Flow Algorithms

Offers an up-to-date, unified treatment of combinatorial algorithms to solve network flow problems for graduate students and professionals.

This comprehensive text and reference for graduate students and professionals in theoretical computer science, operations research, and discrete math offers an up-to-date, unified view of efficient combinatorial algorithms for a wide variety of network flow problems, including recent work on computing electrical flows and their applications.Network flow theory has been used across a number of disciplines, including theoretical computer science, operations research, and discrete math, to model not only problems in the transportation of goods and information, but also a wide range of applications from image segmentation problems in computer vision to deciding when a baseball team has been eliminated from contention. This graduate text and reference presents a succinct, unified view of a wide variety of efficient combinatorial algorithms for network flow problems, including many results not found in other books. It covers maximum flows, minimum-cost flows, generalized flows, multicommodity flows, and global minimum cuts and also presents recent work on computing electrical flows along with recent applications of these flows to classical problems in network flow theory.