Book Review: Computers and intractability: A guide to the theory of $NP$-completeness

Abstract

Includes indexes. "Shows how to recognize NP-complete problems and offers proactical suggestions for dealing with them effectively. The book covers the basic theory of NP-completeness, provides an overview of alternative directions for further research, and contains and extensive list of NP-complete and NP-hard problems, with more than 300 main entries and several times as many results in total. [This book] is suitable as a supplement to courses in algorithm design, computational complexity, operations research, or combinatorial mathematics, and as a text for seminars on approximation algorithms or computational complexity. It provides not only a valuable source of information for students but also an essential reference work for professionals in computer science"--Back cover. 1. Computers, complexity, and intractability -- 2. The theory of NP-completeness -- 3. Proving NP-completeness results -- 4. Using NP-completeness to analyze problems -- 5. NP-hardness -- 6. Coping with NP-complete problems -- 7. Beyond NP-completeness -- Appendix: A list of NP-complete problems.