CIS6930: APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS | |
Term: Fall 2005
| |
Time: Tue 10:40am-11:30am, Thu 10:40am-12:35pm | |
Location: Turlington 2328 | |
Office hours: Tue 11:30am-12:30pm, Thu 12:35-1:35pm | |
Professor: Alper Üngör | |
Catalogue number: 3993 | |
Credit hours: 3 |
info | announcements | schedule | projects | references |
Date | Lecture Topic | Assignments | Speaker |
Aug 25 Th | Introduction, syllabus, course structure. Vertex cover, greedy algorithm, hardness of approximating TSP [V03] Chapter 1 | HW#0 out [ps, pdf] | Alper |
Aug 30 Tu |
Set cover, greedy algorithm, tight example
[V03] Chapter 2 | HW#1 out [ps, pdf] | Alper |
Sep 1 Th |
Set cover with frequency f, layering algorithm, shortest superstring [V03] Chapter 2 |   | Alper |
Sep 6 Tu |
Steiner tree, metric Steiner tree
[V03] Chapter 3 |   | Alper |
Sep 8 Th |
Metric TSP; Minimum weight multiway cut
[V03] Chapter 3 | HW#1 due | Alper |
Sep 13 Tu |
minimum weight k-cut
[V03] Chapter 4 | HW#1 graded | Alper |
Sep 15 Th |
k-center
[V03] Chapter 5 [Reading: [V03] Chapter 6] | HW#2 out [ps, pdf] PA#1 out [ps, pdf] | Alper |
Sep 20 Tu |
Shortest superstring revisited constant factor approximation [V03] Chapter 7 | HW#0 due | Alper |
Sep 22 Th |
Knapsack problem, PTAS, FPTAS
[V03] Chapter 8 |   | Alper |
Sep 27 Tu |
Fully polynomial time approximation scheme Pseudo polynomial time algorithms, strongly NP-hard [V03] Chapter 8 | HW#2 due | Alper |
Sep 29 Th |
Bin packing, Asymptotic PTAS
[V03] Chapter 9 | Proposals due | Alper |
Oct 4 Tu |
Project discussions
[Reading: [V03] Chapter 10] | PA#1 due HW#3 out [ps, pdf] |   |
Oct 6 Th | Projects (cont.), Triangulations | HW#2 graded | Alper |
Oct 11 Tu | Euclidean TSP
[A03]; [V03] Chapter 11 | PA#1 due | Alper |
Oct 13 Th | PA1 discussion, Minimum weight triangulation [H97] Chapter 8 |   | Alper |
Oct 18 Tu | Minimum weight Steiner triangulation [H97] Chapter 8, [E94] | | Alper |
Oct 20 Th | Quality Steiner triangulation | HW#3 due | Alper |
Oct 25 Tu | LP Duality, PA#2 discussion [V03] Chapter 12 | PA#2 out | Alper |
Oct 27 Th | Dual-fitting [V03] Chapter 13 | HW#3 graded HW#4 out [ps, pdf] | Alper |
Nov 1 Tu | Approximate query processing |   | Alin |
Nov 3 Th | Approximate query processing |   | Alin |
Nov 8 Tu | Rounding, randomized rounding [V03] Chapter 14 |   | Alper |
Nov 10 Th | Half-integrality; Primal-dual schema [V03] Chapters 14, 15 | HW#5 out [ps, pdf] | Alper |
Nov 15 Tu | Scheduling Unrelated Parallel Machines [V03] Chapter 17 | PA#2 due | Alper |
Nov 17 Th | Scheduling Unrelated Parallel Machines [V03] Chapter 17 |   | Alper |
Nov 22 Tu | Lagrangian Relaxation, Semi-definite programming [V03] Chapters 24, 25 | HW#5 due | Alper |
Nov 24 Th | THANKSGIVING BREAK | ||
Nov 29 Tu | Project presentations |   | Xiaochun, Heping, Nishant, Nely |
Dec 1 Th | Final exam |   |   |
Dec 6 Tu | Project presentations |   | Bala, Jianhua, Ravi, Henry |
BooksSurveys
[V03] V. Vazirani. Approximation Algorithms. Springer, 2003. [H97] D.S. Hochbaum. Approximation Algorithms for NP-Hard Problems. PWS, 1997. Papers
[H05] S. Har-Peled. Geometric Approximation Algorithms, [book manuscript]. Links
[A03] S. Arora. Approximation schemes for NP-hard geometric optimization problems: A survey. Math Programming, August 2003. [E94] D. Eppstein Approximating the Minimum Weight Triangulation. Disc. Comp. Geom. 11:163-191, 1994. [H00] K. Helsgaun. An Effective Implementation of the Lin-Kernighan Traveling Salesman Heuristic. European Journal of Operational Research, 126 (1), 106-130 (2000).
[L1] A compendium of NP optimization problems
[L2] ACM-SIGACT
[L3] Computing Science Journal Collections [L4] Journals of ACM [L5] Journals of SIAM
info | announcements | schedule | projects | references |