ALGORITMI E LABORATORIO M - Z

Academic Year 2021/2022 - 2° Year - Curriculum Elaborazione Dati e Applicazioni and Curriculum Sistemi e Applicazioni
Teaching Staff Credit Value: 9
Taught classes: 36 hours
Exercise: 24 hours
Laboratories: 12 hours
Term / Semester:

Learning Objectives

  • Algorithms

    Knowledge and understanding: students will acquire knowldege relative to the main methodologies for the design of efficient algorithms (incremental, recursion, dynamic programming, greedy algorithms), as well as the techniques for their computational analysis, both in the worst and in the average cases.
    Applying knowledge and understanding: students will acquire the ability to solve problems of low difficulty, requiring the design and analysis of elementary algorithmic solutions.
    Making judgements: students will be able to evaluate the quality of an algorithmic solution in terms of efficiency and reuse.
    Communication skills: students will acquire the necessary communication skills and expressive ability in communicate problems regarding the algorithmic studies, also to non-expert interlocutors.
    Learning skills: students will have the ability to adapt the knowledge acquired also in new contexts and to advance his/her knowledge through the consultation of specialist sources in the algorithmic field.

  • INTRODUCTION TO ALGORITHMS & LABORATORY

    Knowledge and understanding: the course is focused on the implementation of the main data structures analyzed in the theoretical module of Algorithms. Applying knowledge and understanding: the course is focused both on implementation skills and on the design of algorithmic solutions. Making judgements: students shall be able to judge the effectiveness of the provided implementation and of the adopted solution. Learning skills: students shall be able to adapt all solutions and algorithms for other contexts.


Course Structure

  • Algorithms

    Classroom-taught lessons

    Should teaching be offered in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce changes with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and outlined in the syllabus.

  • INTRODUCTION TO ALGORITHMS & LABORATORY

    Practical laboratory. Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce the required changements in line with the programme planned and outlined in the syllabus. Learning assessment may also be carried out on line, should the conditions require it.


Detailed Course Content

  • Algorithms

    General description

    The course presents the main design methodoligies (incremental, recursion, dynamic programming, greedy algorithms) and the techniques for their complexity analysis, both in the worst and average cases.

     

    DETAILED SYLLABUS

    Introduction
    Computational problems and algorithms: the sorting problem
    Algorithms as technology
    Incremental methodology: Insertion-Sort (correctness and complexity)
    Divide-and-Conquer methodology: Merge-Sort (complexity)
    Asymptotic notations and relationships among them
    Standard notations and common functions.

    Recurrences
    The substitution method
    The iterative method and the recursion tree
    The master theorem

    Sorting and order statistics
    Heaps and their construction
    Priority queues
    Quicksort and its randomized version
    Analysis of Quicksort in the worst- and average case
    Lower bounds for sorting
    Sorting in linear time: Counting-Sort, Radix-Sort, Bucket-Sort
    Medians and order statistics

    Hashing
    Hash table
    Hash functions (division method, multiplication method, universal hashing)
    Open addressing

    Red-black trees
    Rotations, insertions, deletions
    Complexity analysis

    Elements of dynamic programming
    Optimal substructure, overlapping subproblems, reconstructing an optimal solution
    Some case studies: assembly line scheduling, matrix-chain multiplication, longest common subsequence, editing distance

    Elements of the greedy strategy
    Greedy-choice property, optimal substructure
    Some case studies: the activity-selection problem, Huffman codes

    Elementary graph algorithms
    Single-source shortest paths: the Bellman-Ford algorithm, single-source shortest paths in oriented acyclic graphs, Dijkstra's algorithm
    All-pairs shortest paths: the Floyd-Warshall algorithm, transitive closure of oriented graphs

  • INTRODUCTION TO ALGORITHMS & LABORATORY

    The aim of the course is to provide students with the tools for implementing algorithms and the data structures discussed in the Algorithms course. Classes will be held by leveraging an object-oriented programming language. Specifically, the C ++ programming language will be adopted as the main tool to illustrate the implementations of data structures and algorithms.


Textbook Information

  • Algorithms

    T.H. Cormen, C.E. Leiserson, R.L. Rivest, C. Stein. Introduction to algorithms (Third Edition), The MIT Press, Cambridge - Massachusetts, 2009

  • INTRODUCTION TO ALGORITHMS & LABORATORY

    T.H. Cormen, C.E. Leiserson, R.L. Rivest, C. Stein. Introduction to algorithms (Third Edition), The MIT Press, Cambridge - Massachusetts, 2009