CS 25 Fall 2008
Topics covered in CS 25

In the following, "CLRS" indicates readings from Introduction to Algorithms, Second edition, by Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, and Stein.


Motivating Algorithms
Review of asymptotic notation and recurrences (CLRS: Skim Chapters 1-5, Appendices A-C. You can ignore starred sections.)
Lower bounds for sorting, counting sort, radix sort (CLRS: Sections 8.1-8.3)
Median finding (CLRS: Chapter 9)
Review of red-black trees (CLRS: Chapters 12 and 13)
Augmenting data structures (CLRS: Chapter 14)
Dynamic programming (CLRS: Chapter 15)
Greedy algorithms (CLRS: Sections 16.1-16.3)
Amortized analysis: aggregate analysis, accounting method, potential method, dynamic tables. (CLRS: Chapter 17)
Disjoint set data structure (CLRS: Sections 21.1-21.3, 22.1)
Graph representation; Breadth-first search; depth-first search; topological sort; strongly connected components (CLRS: Chapter 22)
Minimum spanning trees (CLRS: Chapter 23)
Single-source shortest paths: Bellman-Ford, dag, Dijkstra's algorithm, difference constraints (CLRS: Chapter 24)
All-pairs shortest paths: matrix multiplication, Floyd-Warshall algorithm. (CLRS: Chapter 25)
Network flow: Ford-Fulkerson, Edmonds-Karp, bipartite matching (CLRS: Sections 26.1-26.3)

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