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Introduction to property testing. (English) Zbl 06797790

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (ISBN 978-1-107-19405-2/hbk; 978-1-108-13525-2/ebook). xxv, 445 p. (2017).
Preliminary review / Publisher’s description: Property testing is concerned with the design of super-fast algorithms for the structural analysis of large quantities of data. The aim is to unveil global features of the data, such as determining whether the data has a particular property or estimating global parameters. Remarkably, it is possible for decisions to be made by accessing only a small portion of the data. Property testing focuses on properties and parameters that go beyond simple statistics. This book provides an extensive and authoritative introduction to property testing. It provides a wide range of algorithmic techniques for the design and analysis of tests for algebraic properties, properties of Boolean functions, graph properties, and properties of distributions.

MSC:

68-01 Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to computer science
68W20 Randomized algorithms