CS 684 Spring 2010

Graph Algorithms

Lecture Time: Monday 7:20pm - 10:00pm
Location: Innovation Hall 206
Course webpage: http://www.cs.gmu.edu/~lifei/teaching/cs684_spring10/
Credit: 3

Instructor: Fei Li, Room 5326, Engineering Building, email: lifei@cs.gmu.edu
Office hours: Monday 5:00pm - 7:00pm

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Course Materials (Tentative):

Week	Date	Content	Reading materials	Assignments
no class Martin Luther King Day	01/18
1	01/25 (introduction)	Introduction to Algorithm Design Stable Marriage Problem Basics of Algorithm Design	KT 1, 2
2	02/01 (background)	Mathematical Background	CLRS 1-9 handout
3	02/08 (greedy)	Basic Graph Algorithms: BFS and DFS Applications of DFS	KT 3 CLRS 22
4	02/15	Minimum Spanning Trees and Kruskal's Algorithm Dijkstra's Algorithm for Shortest Paths	KT 4.4 - 4.6 and CLRS 23, 24
5	02/22 (dynamic programming)	Prim's and Baruvka's Algorithms for MSTs Bellman-Ford Shortest Paths	CLRS 23 and handout CLRS 24
6	03/01	All-Pairs Shortest Paths and the Floyd-Warshall Algorithm Minimum Weight Triangulation	CLRS 25 handout
no class Spring break	03/08
7	03/15	Midterm
8	03/22 (network flows)	Network Flows Applications and Extensions of Network Flow	CLRS 26 and KT 7
9	03/29	Min-Cost Flow Min-Cost Flow Applications	handout
10	04/05 (reduction)	Languages and the Class NP NP-Completeness Reductions	CLRS 34 and KT 8
11	04/12	Cook's Theorem, 3SAT, and Independent Set Clique, Vertex Cover, and Dominating Set	CLRS 34 and KT 8
12	04/19 (approximation)	Hamiltonian Path Vertex Cover and TSP	CLRS 35 and KT 11
13	04/26	Set Cover and Bin Packing The k-Center Problem	CLRS 35 and KT 11
14	05/03	Subset-Sum Approximation Review	CLRS 35
15	05/10 7:30 pm – 10:15 pm	Final exam or project (TBD)

 

Tentative Grading:

Midterm Exam (30%)

A final exam (30%)

Class presentation or assignments (30%)

Class attendence (10%)

No makeup exams will be given for missed tests.

Policies:

 

Hand in hard copies of assignments in class. Please note that all coursework is to be done independently. Plagiarizing the homework will be penalized by maximum negative credit and cheating on the exam will earn you an F in the course. See the GMU Honor Code System and Policies at http://www.gmu.edu/catalog/acadpol.html and http://www.cs.gmu.edu/honor-code.html. You are encouraged to discuss the material BEFORE you do the assignment. As a part of the interaction you can discuss a meaning of the question or possible ways of approaching the solution. The homework should be written strictly by yourself. In case your solution is based on the important idea of someone else please acknowledge that in your solution, to avoid any accusations.

The integrity of the University community is affected by the individual choices made by each of us. GMU has an Honor Code with clear guidelines regarding academic integrity. Three fundamental and rather simple principles to follow at all times are that: (1) all work submitted be your own; (2) when using the work or ideas of others, including fellow students, give full credit through accurate citations; and (3) if you are uncertain about the ground rules on a particular assignment, ask for clarification. No grade is important enough to justify academic misconduct.

Plagiarism means using the exact words, opinions, or factual information from another person without giving the person credit. Writers give credit through accepted documentation styles, such as parenthetical citation, footnotes, or endnotes. Paraphrased material must also be cited, using MLA or APA format. A simple listing of books or articles is not sufficient. Plagiarism is the equivalent of intellectual robbery and cannot be tolerated in the academic setting. If you have any doubts about what constitutes plagiarism, please see me.

Disability Statement:

If you have a learning or physical difference that may affect your academic work, you will need to furnish appropriate documentation to the Disability Resource Center. If you qualify for accommodation, the DRC staff will give you a form detailing appropriate accommodations for your instructor.

In addition to providing your professors with the appropriate form, please take the initiative to discuss accommodation with them at the beginning of the semester and as needed during the term. Because of the range of learning differences, faculty members need to learn from you the most effective ways to assist you. If you have contacted the Disability Resource Center and are waiting to hear from a counselor, please tell me.