Algorithms and Theory of Computation Handbook (Set of 2) (Chapman & Hall/CRC Applied Algorithms and Data Structures series)

This handbook provides an up-to-date compendium of fundamental computer science topics, techniques and applications. Along with updating and revising many of the existing chapters, this edition contains more than 20 new chapters. It now covers external memory, parameterized, self-stabilizing and pricing algorithms as well as the theories of algorithmic coding, privacy and anonymity, databases, computational games and communication networks. It discusses computational topology, computational number theory, natural language processing and grid computing. It also explores applications in intensity-modulated radiation therapy, voting, DNA research, systems biology and financial derivatives.