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The required text is: Amazon logo Ahuja, Magnanti, and Orlin. Network Flows: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications. 1st ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, February 18, 1993. ISBN: 013617549X. "AMO Reading" refers to this text.


SES # TOPICS READINGS IN AMO
1 Introduction to Network Models 1-22, 53-63
2 Computational Complexity and Data Structures 23-38, 765-773
3 Graph Search Algorithms 38-47, 66-79
4 Transformations and Flow Decomposition 79-86
5 Shortest Paths: Label Setting Algorithms 93-114
6 The Radix Heap Algorithm 115-124
7 Shortest Paths: Label Correcting Algorithms 133-147, 149-150, 154-157
8 Basic Algorithms for The Maximum Flow Problem 166-187
9 Combinatorial Applications of Maximum Flows 188-198 and 207-223
10 Preflow Push Algorithms 223-237
11 More on Preflow Push Algorithms 238-242
12 Midterm
13 The Global Min Cut Algorithm Class Handout
14 Minimum Cost Flows: Basic Algorithms 294-319
15 The Successive Shortest Path Algorithm 320-326
16 The Network Simplex Algorithm 402-453
17 Minimum Cost Spanning Trees 510-536
18 Review of Linear Programming 802-820
19 Generalized Flows 566-592
20 Lagrangian Relaxation 1 598-615
21 Lagrangian Relaxation 2 615-638
22 Multicommodity Flows 649-671
23 Multicommodity Flows 671-683
24 Very Large Scale Neighborhood Search Class Handout