Combinatorics in programming

Author: Wu Wenhu
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features:
★ The ACM/ICPC is an international college programming contest organized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). This annual event has become the largest and most influential global computer science competition among universities.
★ Participants in the ACM/ICPC must be undergraduate students, forming teams of three to share one computer. This competition is both connected to and significantly different from the Informatics Olympiad for high school students, and is known as the Olympiad of Informatics for college students.
★ Participating in ACM/ICPC activities is an excellent opportunity to expand knowledge and develop skills. The team spirit demonstrated in the competition is also something contemporary college students should uphold. This book systematically introduces the fundamental theories of combinatorics and common methods for algorithm design and analysis related to programming contests. The book is divided into 8 chapters: Algorithm Basics, An Introduction to Combinatorics, Permutations and Combinations, the Inclusion-Exclusion Principle, Generating Functions, Matroids, Greedy Algorithms, and Pólya's Theorem.
★ This book emphasizes the design and optimization of combinatorial algorithms, making it more convenient for readers preparing for programming contests to learn combinatorics. It can serve as a training textbook for the ACM/ICPC International Collegiate Programming Contest and the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), as well as a reference for those engaged in combinatorics and algorithm research.