Ad3351-Design-And-Analysis-Of-Algorithms Syllabus
Ad3351-Design-And-Analysis-Of-Algorithms Syllabus
3024
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
To critically analyze the efficiency of alternative algorithmic solutions for the same problem
To illustrate brute force and divide and conquer design techniques.
To explain dynamic programming and greedy techniques for solving various problems.
To apply iterative improvement technique to solve optimization problems
To examine the limitations of algorithmic power and handling it in different problems.
UNIT I INTRODUCTION 8
PRACTICAL EXERCISES:
1. Implement recursive and non-recursive algorithms and study the order of growth from log2n to n!.
2. Divide and Conquer - Strassen’s Matrix Multiplication
3. Decrease and Conquer - Topological Sorting
4. Transform and Conquer - Heap Sort
5. Dynamic programming - Coin change Problem, Warshall’s and Floyd‘s algorithms,Knapsack Problem
6. Greedy Technique – Dijkstra’s algorithm, Huffman Trees and codes
7. Iterative improvement - Simplex Method
8. Backtracking – N-Queen problem, Subset Sum Problem
9. Branch and Bound - Assignment problem, Traveling Salesman Problem
30 PERIODS
COURSE OUTCOMES:
At the end of this course, the students will be able to:
CO1: Analyze the efficiency of recursive and non-recursive algorithms mathematically
CO2: Analyze the efficiency of brute force, divide and conquer, decrease and conquer, Transform
and conquer algorithmic techniques
CO3: Implement and analyze the problems using dynamic programming and greedy algorithmic
techniques.
CO4: Solve the problems using iterative improvement techniques for optimization.
CO5: Compute the limitations of algorithmic power and solve the problems using backtracking and
branch and bound techniques.
TOTAL: 75 PERIODS
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Anany Levitin, Introduction to the Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Third Edition, Pearson
Education, 2012.
REFERENCES:
1. Ellis Horowitz, Sartaj Sahni and Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, Computer Algorithms/ C++,
Second Edition, Universities Press, 2019.
2. Thomas H.Cormen, Charles E.Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest and Clifford Stein, Introduction
to Algorithms, Third Edition, PHI Learning Private Limited, 2012.
4. Alfred V. Aho, John E. Hopcroft and Jeffrey D. Ullman, Data Structures and Algorithms,
Pearson Education, Reprint 2006.