Average Reviews:
(More customer reviews)The idea of this book is great: provide exercises in network optimization that are large enough to be challenging but not so large as being unsolvable. The book covers a variety of topics, e.g., shortest paths, matching, traveling salesman problems. Each chapter has a mathematical description of the problem, examples of usages, common ways of solving the problem and the exercises.
The idea is good but there are several problems with the book:
- The writing is convoluted and makes simple things hard to understand (I am guessing that the authors are not native English speakers and there was no editing). There are also a few errors, notably in the figures.
- There is no solution to the exercises. I have searched for an online resource too but nothing came out. I am not sure how we are supposed to check our answers.
- There is no online data set. The point of the book is to have fairly large problem. I am not keen on having to re-type all the inputs to test my results. The data should be made easily available.
- The techniques presented to solve the problems are nothing special.
On the plus side, there is a great bibliography at the beginning of the book that points to more specialized books.
I would give one more star to my review if the book was accompanied by an online website with data sets and results.
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