COMP3711H : Design and Analysis of Algorithms
Fall 2015

Sunil Arya, Room 3514, Tel 2358-8769, Email: arya@cse.ust.hk

 

 

 

Course Information

Schedule & Notes

Assignments

 Tutorials
Marks

David Mount's lecture notes (DM): We will mainly follows these excellent lecture notes.

 

 

Topic

References

Introduction to Algorithm Design DM,  Lecture 1
Algorithm Design: The Stable Marriage Problem DM, Lecture 2
Algorithm Design Review: Mathematical Background DM, Lecture 3

Quicksort and Linear-Time Selection

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Heaps and Heapsort

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Sorting in Linear Time

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Greedy Algorithms for Scheduling DM, Lecture 4
Introduction to Graphs: Definitions, Representations, Traversals DM, Lecture 5
Dijkstra's Algorithm for Shortest Paths DM, Lecture 6
Greedy Algorithms for Minimum Spanning Trees DM, Lecture 7
Greedy Algorithms: Huffman Coding DM, Lecture 8
Divide and Conquer:: Mergesort and Inversion Counting DM, Lecture 9
Dynamic Programming: Weighted Interval Scheduling DM, Lecture 11
Dynamic Programming: Chain Matrix Multiplication DM, Lecture 13
Dynamic Programming: All-Pairs Shortest Paths and Floyd-Warshall Algorithm DM, Supplemental Lecture 6
Network Flows: Basic Definitions DM, Lecture 14
Network Flows: The Ford-Fulkerson Method DM, Lecture 15
NP-Completeness: General Definitions DM, Lecture 18
NP-Completeness: Reductions DM, Lecture 19
Cook's Theorem, Satisfiability, and Independent Set DM, Lecture 20
Approximation Algorithms: Vertex Cover DM, Lecture 22