CS584/684 Algorithm Analysis and Design Spring 2017

Instructor: Andrew Tolmach

Teaching Assistant: H. Forrest Alexander

Course Information

• Syllabus
• Course Mailing List

Books

• Required: Corman, Leiserson, Rivest, and Stein, Introduction to Algorithms,3rd ed., MIT Press 2009.
• CLRS web page has errata, solutions to some exercises, clrscode3e latex package, etc.

Exams

• Midterm: Monday, May 8 in class.
  • Covers all materials (reading, lecture notes homeworks) from weeks 1-4 only. (Dynamic programming is not included.)
  • One 8.5x11 one-sided sheet of hand-written notes permitted.
  • Homework due Wednesday, May 10 will be to repeat the exam as a take-home.
  • Practice problems and sample solutions.
  Final: Wednesday, June 14, 12:30-2:20pm.
  • Covers all materials (reading, lecture notes homeworks) from entire course, but focusing on material after the midterm.
  • One 8.5x11 one-sided sheet of hand-written notes permitted.
  • Practice problems and sample solutions.

Lecture Notes

• Lecture 1: Introduction; Divide-and-conquer; Selection
• Lecture 2: Computational Geometry
• Lecture 3: Multithreaded Algorithms
• Lecture 4: Randomized Algorithms and Probabilistic Analysis
• Lecture 5: Dynamic Programming
• Lecture 6: Greedy Algorithms and Minimum Spanning Trees [updated 15May 11:25am]
• Lecture 7: Shortest Paths
• Lecture 8a: Max-flow and Min-cut
• Lecture 8b: Amortized Analysis
• Lecture 9: NP-Completeness [updated 5June 4:05pm]

Homework Assignments

• Latex files template.tex and framework.tex for preparing your solutions.
• Homework 1 (due Wednesday April 12) [revised 12:20am, Apr8] Sample solutions problems 1-3. Dafny code for Hoare partition.
• Homework 2 (due Wednesday April 19) Sample solutions problems 1-3
• Homework 3 (due Wednesday April 26) [revised 5:25pm, Apr20] Sample solutions problems 1-3. Sample solution problem 4
• Homework 4 (due Wednesday May 3) [revised 4:40pm, May 1] Sample solutions problems 1-2.
• There is no Homework 5
• Homework 6 (due Wednesday May 17) Sample solutions problems 1,4 Sample solution problem 2 Sample solution problem 3
• Homework 7 (due Wednesday May 24) Sample solutions
• Homework 8 (due Wednesday May 31) Sample solutions problems 1-3 [revised 10:10am, June 12] Sample solution problem 4
• Homework 9 (due Friday June 9) Sample solutions

Latex Resources

• A Page discussing recommendations for where to start learning latex.
• The detexify tool is handy for finding symbol names.
• The ShareLaTex tool is handy for avoiding the need to install your own latex system, and also for collaboration (but remember the Individual Work policy!)
• The clrscode3e package.
• The latex source for Lecture 1 illustrates many useful techniques.