Table of Contents:
  • The Objective Method: Probabilistic Combinatorial Optimization and Local Weak Convergence / David Aldous, J. Michael Steele
  • The Random-Cluster Model / Geoffrey Grimmett
  • Models of First-Passage Percolation / C. Douglas Howard
  • Relaxation Times of Markov Chains in Statistical Mechanics and Combinatorial Structures / Fabio Martinelli
  • Random Walks on Finite Groups / Laurent Saloff-Coste
  • Index.