This book brings together the knowledge accumulated during many years to extract both theoretical foundations of graph partitioning and its main applications.
Charles-Edmond Bichot is Associate Professor at ├Йcole Centrale de Lyon in France. His work always focuses on the graph partitioning optimization problem and its applications.
Patrick Siarry is Professor in automatics and informatics at Paris-Est University in France. His main research interests are the applications of new stochastic global optimization heuristics to various engineering fields.