Topics in Combinatorial Optimization

Instructor: 

Semester: 

  • 2014 Spring/Summer (Jan - May)

Matching algorithms, LP-Duality theorem, Polyhedral combinatorics and total unimodularity, LP hierarchies, Online algorithms

References:

Notes on Combinatorial Optimization (Michel X. Goemans)

The Design of Competitive Online Algorithms via a primal-dual approach (Niv Buchbinder and Seffi Naor)