Matroids and the greedy algorithm

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Dec 1971 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Mathematical Programming, volume 1, pages 127-136 (issn: 0025-5610, eissn: 1436-4646,

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Authors: Jack Edmonds 0001;

doi: 10.1007/bf01584082

Matroids and the greedy algorithm

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Abstract

Linear-algebra rank is the solution to an especially tractable optimization problem. This tractability is viewed abstractly, and extended to certain more general optimization problems which are linear programs relative to certain derived polyhedra.

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Linear programming

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