Trees Kun-Mao Chao (趙坤茂) Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering National Taiwan University, Taiwan E-mail: kmchao@csie.ntu.edu.tw WWW: http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~kmchao
About this course Course: Special topics on graph algorithms We will mostly focus on those tree-related algorithmic problems and their applications. Spring semester, 2019 9:10 - 12:10 Tuesday, 105 CSIE Building. 3 credits Web site: http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~kmchao/tree19spr
Outlines Counting spanning trees Minimum spanning trees Shortest-paths tree Minimum routing cost spanning trees Communication spanning trees Light approximate spanning trees Steiner minimal trees Diameters Swap edges Tree splitting Other advanced topics
Coursework: Two midterm exams (35% each) tentatively on Mar. 26, 2019 and May 14, 2019 Oral presentation or implementation of selected topics or papers (20%) Homework and class participation (10%)
Our book on spanning trees Spanning Trees and Optimization Problems, by Bang Ye Wu and Kun-Mao Chao (2004), Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, USA. Link to Amazon
Spanning Trees and Optimization Problems S T O P ! Trees Optimization Problems & B.Y. Wu and K.-M. Chao CRC press, 2004