Algorithm Design Techniques

 308-360B              Winter 2003    Arts W125   TuTh 10-11:30pm

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Required Text: Introduction to Algorithms, Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, Stein (2nd edition)
                               (First edition has most but not all of the material)

Prerequisite:  308-251
 Students without the prerequisites will be deleted from the course list.

Assessment:
There will be one midterm exam (20%)  and a final exam (60%) in the exam period. There will be 4 homework assignments (20%). The higher of the mark computed in this way and your final exam mark (taken as 100%) will be converted to a letter grade.

Assignments are to be left in the box near the labs, McConnell 1st floor.
Late assignments  -10% per day, including weekends.



Topics: (tentative)

Introduction (1 lecture)

Greedy Algorithms (2 lectures)

Minimum Spanning Trees (2 lectures)

Dynamic Programming (2 lectures)

Shortest Paths in Graphs (2 lectures)

Network Flows (2 lectures)

Review (1 lecture), Midterm (1 lecture)

Matchings (2 lectures)

Linear Programming (2 lectures)

NP-complete problems (4 lectures)

Linear Programming (2 lectures)

Case Study: Travelling Salesman Problem (1-3 lectures)



Texts on Reserve at PSEL(Schulich) Library:

Introduction to Algorithms, Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, Stein

Computer Algorithms, Baase and Van Gelder

Instructor:  David Avis
McConnell 308  avis@cs.mcgill.ca                      http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~avis
Office Hours: Tu, Th  2:00-3:30

Teaching Assistants: 

Maxime Desco <mdesco@cim.mcgill.ca>

Thomas Feng <thomas@email.com.cn>

Midterm: March 4, in class 

Final exam: tba

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Last update:January 23, 2003