Springer Applications of Continuous Mathematics to Computer Science: 38 (Theory and Decision Library B, 38)

This volume is intended to be used as a textbook for a special topic course in computer science. It addresses contemporary research topics of interest such as intelligent control, genetic algorithms, neural networks, optimization techniques, expert systems, fractals, and computer vision. The work incorporates many new research ideas, and focuses on the role of continuous mathematics. Audience: This book will be valuable to graduate students interested in theoretical computer topics, algorithms, expert systems, neural networks, and software engineering. Review H.T. Nguyen and V. Kreinovich Applications of Continuous Mathematics to Computer Science "The book represents a fine state-of-the-art description of combinatorial optimization. The book presents not only a lot of well-known solutions but also a row of new results and demonstrates how to formulate and to answer original questions. The comprehensive book covers the scope of a normal textbook on combinatorial optimization and goes beyond the contents of such a book in several aspects, e.g.; this book contains complete proofs. To read this is very stimulating for all the researchers, practitioners, and students in combinatorial optimization."―OR-NEWS