Graphs, Dioids and Semirings - New Models and Algorithms (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2008)

The primary objective of this essential text is to emphasize the deep relations existing between the semiring and dio d 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.