A One-Stop Source of Known Results, a Bibliography of Papers on the Subject, and Novel Research Directions

Focusing on a very active area of research in the last decade, Combinatorics of Compositions and Words provides an introduction to the methods used in the combinatorics of pattern avoidance and pattern enumeration in compositions and words. It also presents various tools and approaches that are applicable to other areas of enumerative combinatorics.

After a historical perspective on research in the area, the text introduces techniques to solve recurrence relations, including iteration and generating functions. It then focuses on enumeration of basic statistics for compositions. The text goes on to present results on pattern avoidance for subword, subsequence, and generalized patterns in compositions and then applies these results to words. The authors also cover automata, the ECO method, generating trees, and asymptotic results via random compositions and complex analysis.

Highlighting both established and new results, this book explores numerous tools for enumerating patterns in compositions and words. It includes a comprehensive bibliography and incorporates the use of the computer algebra systems Maple (TM) and Mathematica (R), as well as C++ to perform computations.

About the Author

Silvia Heubach is a Professor and the Chair of the Department of Mathematics at the California State University, Los Angeles, where she received the Outstanding Professor Award in 1999/2000.

Toufik Mansour is an Associate Professor at the University of Haifa. The author or co-author of more than 60 papers, Professor Mansour's general research interest is in discrete mathematics and its applications, with an emphasis on pattern avoidance problems.

Reviews

... contains a lot of hidden gems, which need to be explored. It is an advantage that the authors provide fragments of Maple and Mathematica code which would help such explorations. ... The book is written in an accessible style ... it is quite easy to use for the non-specialist in the area, given a basic computer science and/or mathematical background. It will be a useful reference for the researcher, as well as a very good textbook for a graduate-level course in the area. I recommend the book heartily to both specialists and beginning researchers in the area.
-IACR Book Reviews, June 2011

... contains a lot of hidden gems, which need to be explored. It is an advantage that the authors provide fragments of Maple and Mathematica code which would help such explorations. ... The book is written in an accessible style ... it is quite easy to use for the non-specialist in the area, given a basic computer science and/or mathematical background. It will be a useful reference for the researcher, as well as a very good textbook for a graduate-level course in the area. I recommend the book heartily to both specialists and beginning researchers in the area.
-IACR Book Reviews, June 2011

Book Information
ISBN 9781138116672
Author Silvia Heubach
Format Paperback
Page Count 504
Imprint CRC Press
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 453g