Explaining the fundamentals of algorithms, this text emphasizes on understanding the mathematical idea behind each algorithm. It includes features such as: the use of boxes to strengthen the narrative: pieces that give historical context, descriptions of how the algorithms are used in practice, and excursions for the mathematically sophisticated.
Our hero is Turing, an interactive tutoring program and namesake (or virtual emanation?) of Alan Turing, World War II code breaker and father of computer science. In this unusual novel, Turing's idiosyncratic version of intellectual history from a computational point of view unfolds in tandem with the story of a love affair.
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Internet and Network Economics, WINE 2008, held in Shanghai, China, in December 2008. The papers are organized in topical sections on market equilibrium, congestion games, information markets, nash equilibrium, network games, solution concepts, and mechanism design.