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Algorithms: Design and Analysis, Part 2
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- 6 Sequences
- Introductive Level
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Syllabus
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
Instructors
- Tim Roughgarden - Computer Science
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