Matroids have been defined in 1935 as generalization of graphs and matrices. Starting from the 1950s they have had increasing interest and the theoretical results obtained have been used for solving several difficult problems in various fields such as civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering, computer science, and mathematics. A comprehensive treatment of matroids can not be contained in few pages or even in only one book. Thus, the scope of this article is to introduce the reader to this theory, providing the definitions of some different types of matroids and their main properties.
Matroids / Festa, Paola. - STAMPA. - (2009), pp. 1975-1981. [10.1007/978-0-387-74759-0_335]
Matroids
FESTA, PAOLA
2009
Abstract
Matroids have been defined in 1935 as generalization of graphs and matrices. Starting from the 1950s they have had increasing interest and the theoretical results obtained have been used for solving several difficult problems in various fields such as civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering, computer science, and mathematics. A comprehensive treatment of matroids can not be contained in few pages or even in only one book. Thus, the scope of this article is to introduce the reader to this theory, providing the definitions of some different types of matroids and their main properties.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
