ADVISORY EDITORS RONALD L. GRAHAM AT& TBell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, U.S.A. JAN KAREL LENSTRA Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands ROBERT E. TARJAN Princeton University, New Jersey, and NEC Research Institute, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A. AARTS AND KORST Simulated Annealing and Boltzmann Machines: A Stochastic Approach to Combinatorial Optimization and Neural Computing AARTS AND LENSTRA Local Search in Combinatorial Optimization ALON, SPENCER, AND ERDS The Probabilistic Method ANDERSON AND NASH Linear Programming in Infinite-Dimensional Spaces: Theory and Application ASENCOTT Simulated Annealing: Parallelization Techniques BARTHELEMY AND GUtNOCHE Trees and Proximity Representations BAZARRA, JAR VIS, AND SHERALI Linear Programming and Network Flows CHONG AND ZAK An Introduction to Optimization COFFMAN AND LUEKER Probabilistic Analysis of Packing and Partitioning Algorithms COOK, CUNNINGHAM, PULLEYBLANK, AND SCHRIJVER Combinatorial Optimization DASKIN Network and Discrete Location: Modes, Algorithms and Applications DINITZ AND STINSON Contemporary Design Theory: A Collection of Surveys ERICKSON Introduction to Combinatorics GLOVER, KLINGHAM, AND PHILLIPS Network Models in Optimization and Their Practical Problems GOLSHTEIN AND TRETYAKOV Modified Lagrangians and Monotone Maps in Optimization GONDRAN AND MINOUX Graphs and Algorithms (Translated by S. Vajd) GRAHAM, ROTHSCHILD, AND SPENCER Ramsey Theory, Second Edition GROSS AND TUCKER Topological Graph Theory HALL Combinatorial Theory, Second Edition JENSEN AND TOFT Graph Coloring Problems LAWLER, LENSTRA, RINNOOY KAN, AND SHMOYS, Editors The Traveling Salesman Problem: A Guided Tour of Combinatorial Optimization LEVITIN Perturbation Theory in Mathematical Programming Applications MAHMOUD Evolution of Random Search Trees MARTELLO AND TOTH Knapsack Problems: Algorithms and Computer Implementations McALOON AND TRETKOFF Optimization and Computational Logic MINC Nonnegative Matrices MINOUX Mathematical Programming: Theory and Algorithms (Translated by S. Vajd) MIRCHANDANI AND FRANCIS, Editors Discrete Location Theory NEMHAUSER AND WOLSEY Integer and Combinatorial Optimization NEMIROVSKY AND YUDIN Problem Complexity and Method Efficiency in Optimization (Translated bv E. R. Dawson) PACH AND AGARWAL Combinatorial Geometry PLESS Introduction to the Theory of Error-Correcting Codes, Third Edition ROOS AND VIAL Ph. Theory and Algorithms for Linear Optimization: An Interior Point Approach SCHEINERMAN AND ULLMAN Fractional Graph Theory: A Rational Approach to the Theory of Graphs SCHRIJVER Theory of Linear and Integer Programming TOMESCU Problems in Combinatorics and Graph Theory (Translated by R. A. Melter) TUCKER Applied Combinatorics, Second Edition YE Interior Point Algorithms: Theory and Analysis Introduction to the Theory of Error-Correcting Codes, Third Edition by Vera Pless Copyright 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.