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Table of Contents: the Boost Graph Library BGL Book

  1. Introduction to the BGL
  2. History
  3. List of BGL Users
  4. Publications
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. A Quick Tour of the Boost Graph Library.
  7. Review of Elementary Graph Theory
  8. Boost Graph Library Tutorial
    1. Property Maps
    2. The adjacency_list class
  9. Examples
    1. File Dependency Example
    2. Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
    3. Graph Coloring
    4. Sparse Matrix Ordering
  10. Extending the Boost Graph Library
    1. Constructing graph algorithms with BGL
    2. Converting Existing Graphs to BGL
  11. The Boost Graph Interface
    1. Graph
    2. Incidence Graph
    3. Bidirectional Graph
    4. Adjacency Graph
    5. Vertex List Graph
    6. Edge List Graph
    7. Vertex and Edge List Graph
    8. Mutable Graph
    9. Property Graph
    10. Mutable Property Graph
  12. The Property Map Library (technically not part of the graph library, but used a lot here)
  13. Visitor Concepts
    1. BFS Visitor
    2. DFS Visitor
    3. Dijkstra Visitor
    4. Bellman Ford Visitor
    5. Event Visitor
  14. EventVisitorList Adaptors
    1. Event Visitor List
    2. bfs_visitor
    3. dfs_visitor
    4. dijkstra_visitor
    5. bellman_visitor
  15. Event Visitors
    1. predecessor_recorder
    2. distance_recorder
    3. time_stamper
    4. property_writer
  16. Graph classes
    1. adjacency_list
    2. adjacency_matrix
  17. Graph Adaptors
    1. subgraph
    2. edge_list
    3. reverse_graph
    4. filtered_graph
    5. Vector as Graph *
    6. Matrix as Graph*
    7. Leda Graph *
    8. Stanford GraphBase
  18. Iterator Adaptors
    1. adjacency_iterator
    2. inv_adjacency_iterator
  19. Traits classes
    1. graph_traits
    2. adjacency_list_traits
    3. property_map
  20. Algorithms
    1. bgl_named_params
    2. Core Algorithm Patterns
      1. breadth_first_search
      2. breadth_first_visit
      3. depth_first_search
      4. depth_first_visit
      5. undirected_dfs
      6. uniform_cost_search (deprecated, use Dijkstra's instead)
    3. Graph Algorithms
      1. Shortest Paths Algorithms
        1. dijkstra_shortest_paths
        2. bellman_ford_shortest_paths
        3. dag_shortest_paths
        4. johnson_all_pairs_shortest_paths
      2. Minimum Spanning Tree Algorithms
        1. kruskal_minimum_spanning_tree
        2. prim_minimum_spanning_tree
      3. connected_components
      4. strong_components
      5. Incremental Connected Components
        1. initialize_incremental_components
        2. incremental_components
        3. same_component
        4. component_index
      6. Maximum Flow Algorithms
        1. edmunds_karp_max_flow
        2. push_relabel_max_flow
      7. topological_sort
      8. transitive_closure
      9. copy_graph
      10. transpose_graph
      11. isomorphism
      12. cuthill_mckee_ordering
      13. sequential_vertex_coloring*
      14. minimum_degree_ordering
      15. sloan_ordering
      16. ith_wavefront, max_wavefront, aver_wavefront, and rms_wavefront
      17. brandes_betweenness_centrality
      18. Layout algorithms
        1. circle_layout
        2. kamada_kawai_spring_layout
      19. Clustering algorithms
        1. betweenness_centrality_clustering
  21. AT&T Graphviz Read/Write Utilities
    1. write_graphviz
    2. read_graphviz
  22. Auxiliary Concepts, Classes, and Functions
    1. property
    2. ColorValue
    3. Buffer
    4. BasicMatrix
    5. incident
    6. opposite
    7. bandwidth
    8. ith_bandwidth
    9. Tools for random graphs
      1. random_vertex
      2. random_edge
      3. generate_random_graph
      4. randomize_property
  23. Challenge and To-Do List
  24. Trouble Shooting
  25. Known Problems
  26. FAQ
  27. BGL Book Errata

* Items marked have not yet been documented.


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