Analysis of Algorithms and Heuristic Problem Solving

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    #	Topic	Description
    1	Introduction	Course contents, review of what you already know about computational complexity
    2	Computational Complexity	Analysis of recursive algorithms, substitution method, recursive tree method, Recipes for divide and conquer algorithms: the master theorem, the Akra-Bazzi theorem http://videolectures.net/mit6046jf05_introduction_algorithms/
    3	Linear recurrences	Solving linear recurrences with annihilators
    4	Probabilistic analysis	Indicator random variables, probabilistic analysis of algorithms
    5	Randomized algorithms	Randomized algorithms, pseudo-random numbers, http://videolectures.net/mit6046jf05_leiserson_lec04/
    6	Amortized analysis	Amortized analysis of computational complexity, http://videolectures.net/mit6046jf05_leiserson_lec13/
    7	Analysis of multithreaded algorithms	Read Chapter 27 in the textbook
    8	Approximation algorithms	Read Chapter 35 in the textbook, and revise P and NP algorithms by reading Chapter 34
    9	Linear programming for problem solving	Read Chapters 29 and 35.4 in the textbook The code of LP example in R Datoteka
    10	Optimization and local search	Read Chapter 12 in J. Kleinberg, E. Tardos: Algorithm Design. Pearson, 2006
    11	Metaheuristics	Simulated annealing, Nash equilibrium and social choice, tabu search, variable neighbourhood search, guided local search Read the corresponding chapters in M. Gendreau, J.-Y. Potvin: Handbook of Metaheuristics, Springer, 2010 TABU search, VNS, GLS
    12	Population methods	Memetic algorithms, swarm intelligence
    13	Differential evolution	Optimization with differential evolution Description of DE in textbook Computational Intelligence - An Introduction Das et al. (2016): Recent advances in differential evolution – An updated survey, Datoteka Datoteka
    14	Biologically inspired metaheuristics	many optimization  methods taking inspiration in the nature and society A survey paper on biologically inspired metaheuristics Datoteka
    15	Machine learning for combinatorial optimization	For some problems, heuristics can be obtained by collecting execution data and applying machine learning algorithms to guide the search.

    
    
    

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