Download or read book Graphs, Dioids and Semirings written by Michel Gondran and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-05-14 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary objective of this essential text is to emphasize the deep relations existing between the semiring and dioïd structures with graphs and their combinatorial properties. It does so at the same time as demonstrating the modeling and problem-solving flexibility of these structures. In addition the book provides an extensive overview of the mathematical properties employed by "nonclassical" algebraic structures which either extend usual algebra or form a new branch of it.