Book Description
Part 5 of Sedgewicks seminal work on Algorithms is available for the first time in a Java version!
Its unique blend of theory and practice makes this book appeal equally to both the professional and academic markets.
Over 400,000 copies of Sedgewicks books on algorithms have been sold! This edition is long-awaited, with lots of pent-up demand.
Robert Sedgewick, along with Donald Knuth, is one of the very few people with a world-wide reputation for their contributions to the field of computer algorithms. This book is the second of three volumes that survey the most important computer algorithms in use today. Much more than a standard revision, this is a major rewrite. The material is more than five times as long as in the previous edition, which was only available in C and C++. Sedgewick has added a wealth of new exercises, hundreds of new figures, and dozens of new programs. This volume, Part 5, covers graph algorithms, which are pervasive in modern computing appications. Graph algorithms are increasingly critical for a wide range of applications, such as network connectivity, circuit design, scheduling, transaction processing, and resource allocation. In the third edition, many new algorithms are presented, and the explanations of each algorithm are much more detailed than in previous editions. A new text design and detailed, innovative figures, with accompanying commentary, greatly enhance the presentation. Source code for the implementations is available on the Web. The C and C++ versions of this volume have been previously published. Unlike any other book on algorithms, not only will programmers get practical information on using algorithms in their work, they can also be assured that these algorithms rest on the most solid scientific foundations.
User Level-
Intermediate.
Author Biography- Robert Sedgewick is one of the most revered individuals in all of computer science. He is the William O. Baker Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. He is a director of Adobe Systems and has held visiting research positions at INRIA, the Institute for Defense Analyses, and Xerox PARC. Michael Schidlowsky contributed to the Java implementations of the algorithms. Michael, a Princeton graduate, is an independent software consultant specializing in object-oriented programming. Most recently he was the CTO of Teaching That Works, and the founder of xSense Corporation.
Synopsis
Algorithms in Java, Third Edition, Part 5: Graph Algorithms, contains six chapters that cover graph properties and types, graph search, directed graphs, minimal spanning trees, shortest paths, and networks. The descriptions here are intended to give students an understanding of the basic properties of as broad a range of fundamental graph algorithms as possible. In the third edition, many new algorithms are presented, and the explanations of each algorithm are much more detailed than in previous editions. Unlike any other book on algorithms, not only will students get practical information on using algorithms in their work, they can also be assured that these algorithms rest on the most solid scientific foundations. And a new emphasis on abstract data types throughout the books makes the programs more broadly useful and relevant in modern object-oriented programming environments. This book is useful as a text early in the computer science curriculum, after students have acquired basic programming skills and familiarity with computer systems, but before they have taken specialized courses in advanced areas of computer science or computer applications.There is sufficient coverage of basic material for the book to be used to teach data structures to beginners, and there is sufficient detail and coverage of advanced material for the book to be used to teach the design and analysis of algorithms to upper-level students.
Some instructors may wish to emphasize implementations and practical concerns; others may wish to emphasize analysis and theoretical concepts. For a more comprehensive course, this book is also available in a special bundle with Parts 1-4 (ISBN for bundle of Parts 1-4 and Part 5 is 0201775786); thereby instructors can cover fundamentals, data structures, sorting, searching, and graph algorithms in one consistent style.
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