Graph Searching Games and the Probabilistic Method

A new book

by Anthony Bonato and Pawel Pralat

 

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Description: Graph Searching Games and Probabilistic Methods is the first book that focuses on the intersection of graph searching games and probabilistic methods. The book explores various applications of these powerful mathematical tools to games and processes such as Cops and Robbers, Zombie and Survivors, and Firefighting. Written in an engaging style, the book is accessible to a wide audience including mathematicians and computer scientists. Readers will find that the book provides state-of-the-art results, techniques, and directions in graph searching games, especially from the point of view of probabilistic methods.

Audience: Graduate students, pure and applied mathematicians, computer scientists, and all those interested in graph theory and probability theory.

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Series: Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications
December 6, 2017 by Chapman and Hall/CRC
Reference - 346 Pages - 53 B/W Illustrations
ISBN 9781138627161 - CAT# K31933

 


Reviews:

"Pursuit-evasion games is an exciting branch of graph theory, with many innocent-looking problems that are very difficult to solve. Written by two experts in this lively area, this book surveys the state-of-the-art results in this area and explains the most important ideas in an engaging manner. Another important theme in this book is probabilistic methods; through fascinating and fun graph searching games, the book covers quite a range of important tools from probabilistic methods and random graphs. This book is fun to read, accessible to students as well as to researchers, and it is an attractive resource for everyone who wants to enter any of these three areas: graph searching games, probabilistic methods, or random graphs. It can also be used as the textbook for a graduate course on these topics." -Abbas Mehrabian

"The book is a thorough survey of the last forty years of work done in the field of graph searching games. The book is well written, easy to read and the sources are handled carefully." -András Sándor Pluhár, for AMS Math Reviews

Some pages from the book (pdf files):

Table of contents

Preface

Preview of Chapter 1

Bibliography