Theoretical Improvements in Algorithmic Efficiency for Network Flow Problems

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Theoretical Improvements in Algorithmic Efficiency for Network Flow Problems

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Volume 19 , Issue 2 (April 1972) table of contents

Pages: 248 - 264

Year of Publication: 1972

ISSN:0004-5411

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Jack Edmonds	Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Richard M. Karp	College of Engineering, Operations Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, California

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