AdA Syllabus
AdA Syllabus
Course Outcomes:
Analyze the performance of algorithms
Choose appropriate data structures and algorithm design methods for a specified application
Understand the choice of data structures and the algorithm design methods
UNIT - I
Introduction: Algorithm, Performance Analysis-Space complexity, Time complexity, Asymptotic
Notations- Big oh notation, Omega notation, Theta notation and Little oh notation.
Divide and conquer: General method, applications-Binary search, Quick sort, Merge sort, Strassen’s
matrix multiplication.
UNIT - II
Disjoint Sets: Disjoint set operations, union and find algorithms, Priority Queue- Heaps, Heapsort
Backtracking: General method, applications, n-queen’s problem, sum of subsets problem, graph
Coloring, Hamiltonian cycles.
UNIT - III
Dynamic Programming: General method, applications- Optimal binary search tree, 0/1 knapsack
problem, All pairs shortest path problem, Traveling sales person problem, Reliability design.
UNIT - IV
Greedy method: General method, applications- Job sequencing with deadlines, knapsack problem,
Minimum cost spanning trees, Single source shortest path problem.
Basic Traversal and Search Techniques: Techniques for Binary Trees, Techniques for Graphs,
Connected components, Biconnected components.
UNIT - V
Branch and Bound: General method, applications - Travelling sales person problem, 0/1 knapsack
problem - LC Branch and Bound solution, FIFO Branch and Bound solution.
NP-Hard and NP-Complete problems: Basic concepts, non-deterministic algorithms, NP - Hard and
NP-Complete classes, Cook’s theorem.
TEXT BOOK:
1. Fundamentals of Computer Algorithms, Ellis Horowitz, Satraj Sahni and Rajasekharan,
University Press.
REFERENCE BOOKS:
1. Design and Analysis of algorithms, Aho, Ullman and Hopcroft, Pearson education.
2. Introduction to Algorithms, second edition, T. H. Cormen, C.E. Leiserson, R. L. Rivest, and C.
Stein, PHI Pvt. Ltd./ Pearson Education.
3. Algorithm Design: Foundations, Analysis and Internet Examples, M.T. Goodrich and
R.Tamassia, John Wiley and sons.
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