Hon Wai Leong, NUS (CS6234, Spring 2009) Page 1 Copyright © 2009 by Leong Hon Wai CS6234: Spring 2009 (Overview) CS6234: Advanced Algorithms  Instructors:  Leong Hon Wai, COM  Panagiotis Karras, COM  Course webpage  Course Objectives: Advanced treatment of algorithm design Seminar based course (you give lecture too) Independent research on an algorithmic problem

Hon Wai Leong, NUS (CS6234, Spring 2009) Page 2 Copyright © 2009 by Leong Hon Wai CS6234: Overview (2)  Course Assessment:  20% Midterm  30%Reading and Presentation  50%Research Project  Target Students:  Research students  Those aiming to do research in algorithm design

Hon Wai Leong, NUS (CS6234, Spring 2009) Page 3 Copyright © 2009 by Leong Hon Wai CS6234: Overview…(3)  Pre-requisite:  CS5206 or the old CS5234  Textbook: No single textbook, but…  Reference Material:  [PS82] Combinatorial Optimization: Algorithm & Complexity, by Papadimitriou and Steiglitz, Prentice-Hall,  [KT06] Algorithm Design, by Kleinberg & Tardos Addison-Wesley,  [CLRS01] Introduction to Algorithms, (2 nd edition) by Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, Stein, MIT Press,  [Schr03] Combinatorial Optimization: Polyhedral and Efficiency, by A. Schrijver, Springer, 2003.

Hon Wai Leong, NUS (CS6234, Spring 2009) Page 4 Copyright © 2009 by Leong Hon Wai CS6234: Tentative Schedule  Week 1: Course Intro and Graph Matching  Week 2: Linear Programming  Week 3: Approximation Algorithms  Week 4: Online Algorithms  Week 5: Randomized Algorithms  Week 6: Special Topics in Data Engineering  Week B: BREAK  Week 7: Mid-Term  Week 8: Student Lectures  Week 9: Student Lectures mm  Week 10: Student Lectures / Special Topic  Week 11: Student Lectures / Special Topic  Week 12: Course Summary and Review  Week 13: Student Project Poster Presentations

Hon Wai Leong, NUS (CS6234, Spring 2009) Page 5 Copyright © 2009 by Leong Hon Wai We will not cover  Data Structures  Trees, Priority-Queues, etc  Basic algorithm design paradigms  Divide-and-Conquer, Greedy, DP, Std Graph Alg,  Amortized complexity  Basic NP-Completeness  NP, reduction, NP-Completeness proofs Take CS5206 instead!

Hon Wai Leong, NUS (CS6234, Spring 2009) Page 6 Copyright © 2009 by Leong Hon Wai  About class organization…  (adapted from similar slides by OoiWT)

Hon Wai Leong, NUS (CS6234, Spring 2009) Page 7 Copyright © 2009 by Leong Hon Wai Philosophy  Students are expected to be  Mature  Independent  Resourceful  What you learn is (should be) more important than your grade

Hon Wai Leong, NUS (CS6234, Spring 2009) Page 8 Copyright © 2009 by Leong Hon Wai Please don’t ask …  “Is this equation important?”  “Is this equation examinable?”  “Do I have to memorize this algorithm?”

Hon Wai Leong, NUS (CS6234, Spring 2009) Page 9 Copyright © 2009 by Leong Hon Wai Please do ask …  “What is the effect of changing k in the equation?”  “Why did the author define this quantity in his algorithm?”  “Is there another way of computing this quantity?”  “Can this algorithm be applied to other problems that I have seen before?”

Hon Wai Leong, NUS (CS6234, Spring 2009) Page 10 Copyright © 2009 by Leong Hon Wai Academic Honesty  No copying among students  No copying from published work ZERO TOLERENCE to Plagiarism

Hon Wai Leong, NUS (CS6234, Spring 2009) Page 11 Copyright © 2009 by Leong Hon Wai Discussion?  Strongly encouraged …  but  must acknowledge all contributions  write up solutions independently

Hon Wai Leong, NUS (CS6234, Spring 2009) Page 12 Copyright © 2009 by Leong Hon Wai Thank you. Q & A