Matroid Applications (Hardcover)

List of contributors; Preface; 1. Matroids and rigid structures Walter Whiteley; 2. Perfect matroid designs M. Deza; 3. Infinite matroids James Oxley; 4. Matroidal families of graphs J. M. S. Simoes-Pereira; 5. Algebraic aspects of partition lattices Ivan?Rival and Miriam Stanford; 6. The Tutte polynomial and its applications Thomas?Brylawski and James Oxley; 7. Homology and shellability of matroids and geometric lattices Anders Bjorner; 8. Introduction to greedoids Anders Bjorner and Gunter M. Ziegler; Index.