- Instructor: Prof. Sung-Hyuk Cha
- Email: scha@pace.edu
- Tel: (212) 346-1253
- Office: 163 William St. 2nd floor rm 228
- Office Hours:
- Wednesday 3:50pm~5:50pm
- By appointment
- CRN: 41388
- Meeting:
- Time: Summer 2022
- Place:
Online
- Textbook: 7 Algorithm Design Paradigms, 2020,
by Sung-Hyuk Cha
Suggested book:
Introduction to Algorithms, Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, and Stein, Third Edition, MIT Press.
- Resource: Dictionary of Algorithms
and Data Structures
- Course Description:
The purpose of this course is to acquire a thorough grounding in the core principles and foundations of computer science. Students will learn methods for expressing and comparing algorithm complexity (worst- and average-case upper bounds, lower bounds) as well as to verify correctness. Algorithm-design techniques (divide-and-conquer, dynamic programming) as well as data structures (trees, heaps, hash tables) widely used in modern software development will be studied. The knowledge gained will be applied to a variety of practical problems, such as searching, sorting, and graph problems (shortest paths, minimum spanning trees). The question of what problems are hard to compute will be addressed with an introduction to NP-completeness theory, including the development of the NP-complete classification and the identification of NP-hard problems by reductions.
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Learning Outcomes
- ability to analyze efficiency of algorithms and data structures [a];
- ability to utilize and/or design data structures in problem solving [b];
- ability to devise correct algorithms using various algorithm design techniques [b,c];
- understand the difference between inefficient algorithms and "hard" problems [a].
- Prerequisites: CS 502 Minimum Grade of C
- Lecture Notes: can be accessed using the http://classes.pace.edu.
- Tentative Schedule:
| Week | Topic Chapters |
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| 1 (6/1) |
Ch 1 Introduction, Summations, and Asymptotic notations
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| 2 (6/8)
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Ch 2 Inductive Programming
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| 3 (6/15)
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Ch 3 Divide & Conquer (Master theorem)
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| 4 (6/22)
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Ch 4 Greedy algorithms
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| 5 (6/29)
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Ch 5 Tabulation method
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| 6 (7/6)
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Midterm
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| 7 (7/13)
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Ch 7 Stack and Queue
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| 8 (7/20)
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Ch 9 Priority queue
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| 9 (7/27)
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Ch 10 Reduction
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| 10 (8/3)
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Ch 12 Randomized and approximate algorithms
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| 12 (8/10)
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Final Exam
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- Evaluation:
- Participation (25%): Weekly quiz checking reading assignments.
- Homeworks (25%): There will be weekly homework assignments.
- Midterm (25%):
- Final Exam (25%):
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(From the Student Handbook)
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