THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

School of Engineering and Applied Science

Department of Computer Science

 

CSci 6212 Design and Analysis of Algorithms

Summer 2011

 

 
Instructor      :              Abdou Youssef
Email           :              ayoussef@gwu.edu
Phone           :              994-0388
Fax             :              994-4875
Office          :              Academic Center 703
Course URL      :              http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~ayoussef/cs212/

Main Text: Introduction to Algorithms, Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, and Stein, 3rd Edition, 2009

 
Requirements:     
 
4 Homework assignments        40%
Midterm                       30%
Final                         30%
 
COURSE OUTLINE:

Principles of algorithm design and analysis    

Data structures

The Divide and Conquer method

The Greedy Method

Dynamic Programming

Midterm

Graph traversal and related algorithms

Backtracking

Branch and Bound method

Lower Bound Theory

Theory of NP-completeness

Final