University of California, Santa Barbara
Computer Science Department
Design and Analysis of Algorithms
CS 230 (Winter 2009)

  • Instructor

    • Dr. Teofilo F. Gonzalez
    Office: 2119 Engineering I
    Phone: 893--3849
    Office hours: W: 11:30 am - 12:30 pm and F: 1 pm - 2 pm
    E-mail: teo@cs.ucsb.edu

  • Teaching Assistant

  • Kathy Macropol
    Office: Phelps 1413
    Phone: 893 - 8588
    Office hours: Tu: Noon - 1 pm and Th: 1 pm - 2 pm
    E-mail: kpm@cs.ucsb.edu
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  • Course Outline TENTATIVE

  • Introduction
  • Approximation Algorithms
  • Epsilon Approximations
  • Greedy Algorithms
  • Restriction
  • Graph Subproblems
  • Divide and Conquer
  • Dynamic Programming
  • Relaxation (LP)
  • LP Rounding
  • LP Randomized Rounding
  • Primal Dual
  • Local Search
  • Polynomial Time Approximation Schemes
  • Fully polynomial Time Approximation Schemes
  • NP-completeness and Reducibility
  • Restriction, Local Replacement, Component Design
  • Strong NP-completeness
  • Turing Reductions and NP-hard problems
  • Inapproximability Results (NP-hard Approximation)
  • Amortized Complexity
  • Skew Heaps
  • Fibonacci Heaps
  • Graph Algorithms (might not be time)
  • Maximum Flow Algorithms (might not be time)
  • Faster Minimum Cost Spanning Tree Algorithms (might not be time)
  • Lower Bounds (very little)
  • Randomized Algorithms (very little)
  • Monte Carlo and Las Vegas

  • Reference Books

  • [AHU(ALG)] Aho A., Hopcroft J. and Ullman J., "The Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms", Addison-Wesley. (1976). QA 76.6 / .A36 / 1976

  • [AHU(DS)] Aho A., Hopcroft J. and Ullman J., "Data Structures and Algorithms", Addison-Wesley. (1983). QA 76.9 / D35 / A38

  • [CLR] Corman, T., Leiserson, C. E., and Rivest, R. L., "Introduction to Algorithms," McGraw Hill, 1990. QA76.6 / .C662 / 1990

  • [GJ] Garey, M. and Johnson, D., "Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-completeness," W. H. Freeman and Company, San Francisco, 1983. QA76.6 / .G35 / 1983 (TEXTBOOK for second part of the course).

  • [G] Gonzalez, T.F., (editor), "Approximation Algorithms and Metaheuristics," Chapman-Hill/CRC Press, 2007, (TEXTBOOK for first part of course). Electronic version (from UCSB machines) in http://www.engnetbase.com/ejournals/books/book_summary/summary.asp?id=5832

  • [H] Harel, D., "Algorithmics," Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1987. QA76 / .H2833 / 1987.

  • [H] Hochbaum, D., "Approximation algorithms for NP-hard problems," PWS Pub. Co., 1997.

  • [HS] Horowitz, E., Sahni, S. , and Rajasekaran, S., "Computer Algorithms in C++," Computer Science Press, (1997). QA76.73.C153 / H666 / 1997

  • [K1] Knuth, D. E., "Fundamental Algorithms: The Art of Computer Programming," Addison-Wesley, Menlo Park, CA (1973). QA 76.6 / K64 / v.1

  • [K3] Knuth, D. E., "Sorting and Searching: The Art of Computer Programming," Addison-Wesley, Menlo Park, CA (1973). QA 76.6 / K64 / v.3

  • [R] Motwani, R., and Raghavan, P., "Randomized algorithms," Cambridge University Press, 1995. QA274 / .M68 / 1995

  • [S] Sedgewick, R. "Algorithms," Addison-Wesley 1983. QA76.6 / .S435 / 1983

  • [Sa] Tarjan, R. E., "Data Structures and Network Algorithms," Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1983. QA 76.9 / D37 / T37 / 1983

  • [V] Vazirani, V.V., "Approximation algorithms," Springer-Verlag, 2001.
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