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 focus on those tree-related algorithmic problems. In particular, spanning trees … Spring semester, 2004 Thursday 14:20 – 15:20, 409 CSIE Building. 3 credits Web site: http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~kmchao/tree04spr
Coursework: Midterm exam (45%) Oral presentation of selected topics or papers (40%) Homework and class participation (15%)
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 Trees and diameters Other advanced topics
Our new 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 Link to CRC Press
Knuth’s recent talk on spanning trees Donald E. Knuth gave a lecture on spanning trees last December. (In fact, he likes to talk about trees in the Christmas season. Christmas trees …) Try it?
Spanning Trees and Optimization Problems S T O P ! Trees Optimization Problems & B.Y. Wu and K.-M. Chao CRC press, 2004 It’s available now! Bang Ye’s ppt