Algorithms: Design and Analysis, Part 2

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Syllabus

Weeks 1 and 2: The greedy algorithm design paradigm.  Applications to optimal caching and scheduling.  Minimum spanning trees and applications to clustering.  The union-find data structure.  Optimal data compression.

Weeks 3 and 4: The dynamic programming design paradigm.  Applications to the knapsack problem, sequence alignment, shortest-path routing, and optimal search trees.

Weeks 5 and 6: Intractable problems and what to do about them.  NP-completeness and the P vs. NP question.  Solvable special cases. Heuristics with provable performance guarantees.  Local search. Exponential-time algorithms that beat brute-force search.

Prerequisite

None.

Instructors

  • Tim Roughgarden - Computer Science

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