Submodular Functions And Optimization

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Submodular Functions And Optimization
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Author : Satoru Fujishige
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier
Release Date : 2005-07-26
Submodular Functions And Optimization written by Satoru Fujishige and has been published by Elsevier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07-26 with Mathematics categories.
It has widely been recognized that submodular functions play essential roles in efficiently solvable combinatorial optimization problems. Since the publication of the 1st edition of this book fifteen years ago, submodular functions have been showing further increasing importance in optimization, combinatorics, discrete mathematics, algorithmic computer science, and algorithmic economics, and there have been made remarkable developments of theory and algorithms in submodular functions. The 2nd edition of the book supplements the 1st edition with a lot of remarks and with new two chapters: "Submodular Function Minimization" and "Discrete Convex Analysis." The present 2nd edition is still a unique book on submodular functions, which is essential to students and researchers interested in combinatorial optimization, discrete mathematics, and discrete algorithms in the fields of mathematics, operations research, computer science, and economics. - Self-contained exposition of the theory of submodular functions - Selected up-to-date materials substantial to future developments - Polyhedral description of Discrete Convex Analysis - Full description of submodular function minimization algorithms - Effective insertion of figures - Useful in applied mathematics, operations research, computer science, and economics
Submodular Functions And Optimization
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Author : S. Fujishige
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier
Release Date : 1991-01-24
Submodular Functions And Optimization written by S. Fujishige and has been published by Elsevier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-01-24 with Mathematics categories.
The importance of submodular functions has been widely recognized in recent years in combinatorial optimization. This is the first book devoted to the exposition of the theory of submodular functions from an elementary technical level to an advanced one. A unifying view of the theory is shown by means of base polyhedra and duality for submodular and supermodular systems. Among the subjects treated are: neoflows (submodular flows, independent flows, polymatroidal flows), submodular analysis (submodular programs, duality, Lagrangian functions, principal partitions), nonlinear optimization with submodular constraints (lexicographically optimal bases, fair resource allocation). Special emphasis is placed on the constructive aspects of the theory, which lead to practical, efficient algorithms.
Learning With Submodular Functions
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Author : Francis Bach
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Learning With Submodular Functions written by Francis Bach and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Convex functions categories.
Submodular functions are relevant to machine learning for at least two reasons: (1) some problems may be expressed directly as the optimization of submodular functions and (2) the Lovász extension of submodular functions provides a useful set of regularization functions for supervised and unsupervised learning. In this monograph, we present the theory of submodular functions from a convex analysis perspective, presenting tight links between certain polyhedra, combinatorial optimization and convex optimization problems. In particular, we show how submodular function minimization is equivalent to solving a wide variety of convex optimization problems. This allows the derivation of new efficient algorithms for approximate and exact submodular function minimization with theoretical guarantees and good practical performance. By listing many examples of submodular functions, we review various applications to machine learning, such as clustering, experimental design, sensor placement, graphical model structure learning or subset selection, as well as a family of structured sparsity-inducing norms that can be derived and used from submodular functions.
Submodularity In Dynamics And Control Of Networked Systems
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Author : Andrew Clark
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-12-21
Submodularity In Dynamics And Control Of Networked Systems written by Andrew Clark and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-21 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This book presents a framework for the control of networked systems utilizing submodular optimization techniques. The main focus is on selecting input nodes for the control of networked systems, an inherently discrete optimization problem with applications in power system stability, social influence dynamics, and the control of vehicle formations. The first part of the book is devoted to background information on submodular functions, matroids, and submodular optimization, and presents algorithms for distributed submodular optimization that are scalable to large networked systems. In turn, the second part develops a unifying submodular optimization approach to controlling networked systems based on multiple performance and controllability criteria. Techniques are introduced for selecting input nodes to ensure smooth convergence, synchronization, and robustness to environmental and adversarial noise. Submodular optimization is the first unifying approach towards guaranteeing both performance and controllability with provable optimality bounds in static as well as time-varying networks. Throughout the text, the submodular framework is illustrated with the help of numerical examples and application-based case studies in biological, energy and vehicular systems. The book effectively combines two areas of growing interest, and will be especially useful for researchers in control theory, applied mathematics, networking or machine learning with experience in submodular optimization but who are less familiar with the problems and tools available for networked systems (or vice versa). It will also benefit graduate students, offering consistent terminology and notation that greatly reduces the initial effort associated with beginning a course of study in a new area.
Theory And Applications Of Models Of Computation
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Author : Manindra Agrawal
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-05-04
Theory And Applications Of Models Of Computation written by Manindra Agrawal and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-04 with Computers categories.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Models of Computation, TAMC 2012, held in Beijing, China, in May 2012. The conference was combined with the Turing Lectures 2012, dedicated to celebrating Alan Turing’s unique impact on mathematics, computing, computer science, informatics, morphogenesis, philosophy, and the wider scientific world. Eight Turing Lectures were given at the TAMC 2012. The 40 revised full papers presented together with invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 86 submissions. The papers address 4 special sessions at TAMC 2012 which were algorithms and information in networks, complexity and cryptography, models of computing and networking, programming and verification.
Geometric Algorithms And Combinatorial Optimization
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Author : Martin Grötschel
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Geometric Algorithms And Combinatorial Optimization written by Martin Grötschel and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Mathematics categories.
Since the publication of the first edition of our book, geometric algorithms and combinatorial optimization have kept growing at the same fast pace as before. Nevertheless, we do not feel that the ongoing research has made this book outdated. Rather, it seems that many of the new results build on the models, algorithms, and theorems presented here. For instance, the celebrated Dyer-Frieze-Kannan algorithm for approximating the volume of a convex body is based on the oracle model of convex bodies and uses the ellipsoid method as a preprocessing technique. The polynomial time equivalence of optimization, separation, and membership has become a commonly employed tool in the study of the complexity of combinatorial optimization problems and in the newly developing field of computational convexity. Implementations of the basis reduction algorithm can be found in various computer algebra software systems. On the other hand, several of the open problems discussed in the first edition are still unsolved. For example, there are still no combinatorial polynomial time algorithms known for minimizing a submodular function or finding a maximum clique in a perfect graph. Moreover, despite the success of the interior point methods for the solution of explicitly given linear programs there is still no method known that solves implicitly given linear programs, such as those described in this book, and that is both practically and theoretically efficient. In particular, it is not known how to adapt interior point methods to such linear programs.
Combinatorial Optimization And Applications
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Author : Weili Wu
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-12-08
Combinatorial Optimization And Applications written by Weili Wu and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-08 with Computers categories.
The two-volume set LNCS 14461 and LNCS 14462 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications, COCOA 2023, held in Hawaii, HI, USA, during December 15–17, 2023. The 73 full papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 117 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: Optimization in graphs; scheduling; set-related optimization; applied optimization and algorithm; Graph planer and others; Part II: Modeling and algorithms; complexity and approximation; combinatorics and computing; optimization and algorithms; extreme graph and others; machine learning, blockchain and others.
Combinatorial Optimization
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Author : Bernhard Korte
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2007-11-04
Combinatorial Optimization written by Bernhard Korte and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-04 with Mathematics categories.
Now fully updated in a third edition, this is a comprehensive textbook on combinatorial optimization. It puts special emphasis on theoretical results and algorithms with provably good performance, in contrast to heuristics. The book contains complete but concise proofs, also for many deep results, some of which have not appeared in print before. Recent topics are covered as well, and numerous references are provided. This third edition contains a new chapter on facility location problems, an area which has been extremely active in the past few years. Furthermore there are several new sections and further material on various topics. New exercises and updates in the bibliography were added.
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language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
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Approximation And Online Algorithms
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Author : Laura Sanità
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-01-12
Approximation And Online Algorithms written by Laura Sanità and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-12 with Computers categories.
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms, WAOA 2015, held in Patras, Greece, in September 2015 as part of ALGO 2015. The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. Topics of interest for WAOA 2015 were: algorithmic game theory, algorithmic trading, coloring and partitioning, competitive analysis, computational advertising, computational finance, cuts and connectivity, geometric problems, graph algorithms, inapproximability, mechanism design, natural algorithms, network design, packing and covering, paradigms for the design and analysis of approximation and online algorithms, parameterized complexity, scheduling problems,and real-world applications.