306720 (v.2) Design and Analysis of Algorithms 551

Area:	Department of Computing
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	3.0
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Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Practical:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	5396 (v.8) Software Technology 502 or any previous version
Syllabus:	Maths revision and Big-Oh. Divide and conquer: quick-sort and mergesort. Priority queues: heaps and leftist trees. Graphs: depth first search (DFS) and breadth first search (BFS). Greed algorithms: minimum cost spanning tree (MCST) and shortest path. Data compression. String searching. Dynamic programming: Matrix chain, learning classifier system (LCS). Parallel and distributed algorithms.
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Field of Education:	020109 Algorithms
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Not Online *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2008	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y

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