Probability Theory of Classical Euclidean Optimization Problems

Download or read book Probability Theory of Classical Euclidean Optimization Problems written by Joseph E. Yukich and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-11-14 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph describes the stochastic behavior of the solutions to the classic problems of Euclidean combinatorial optimization, computational geometry, and operations research. Using two-sided additivity and isoperimetry, it formulates general methods describing the total edge length of random graphs in Euclidean space. The approach furnishes strong laws of large numbers, large deviations, and rates of convergence for solutions to the random versions of various classic optimization problems, including the traveling salesman, minimal spanning tree, minimal matching, minimal triangulation, two-factor, and k-median problems. Essentially self-contained, this monograph may be read by probabilists, combinatorialists, graph theorists, and theoretical computer scientists.