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Introduction to Algorithms

by: Cormen, Thomas H.; Leiserson, Charles E.; Rivest, Ronald L.; Stein, Clifford

Introduction to Algorithms

by: Cormen, Thomas H.; Leiserson, Charles E.; Rivest, Ronald L.; Stein, Clifford

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9780262533058
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0262533057
Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 09/30/2009
Publisher: Mit Pr
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NOT AVAILABLE IN THE US OR CANADA. International Student Paperback Edition. A new edition of the essential text and professional reference, with substantial new material on such topics as vEB trees, multithreaded algorithms, dynamic programming, and edge-base flow.

Preface	p. xiii
Foundations
Introduction	p. 3
The Role of Algorithms in Computing	p. 5
Algorithms	p. 5
Algorithms as a technology	p. 11
Getting Started	p. 16
Insertion sort	p. 16
Analyzing algorithms	p. 23
Designing algorithms	p. 29
Growth of Functions	p. 43
Asymptotic notation	p. 43
Standard notations and common functions	p. 53
Divide-and-Conquer	p. 65
The maximum-subarray problem	p. 68
Strassen's algorithm for matrix multiplication	p. 75
The substitution method for solving recurrences	p. 83
The recursion-tree method for solving recurrences	p. 88
The master method for solving recurrences	p. 93
Proof of the master theorem	p. 97
Probabilistic Analysis and Randomized Algorithms	p. 114
The hiring problem	p. 114
Indicator random variables	p. 118
Randomized algorithms	p. 122
Probabilistic analysis and further uses of indicator random variables	p. 130
Sorting and Order Statistics
Introduction	p. 147
Heapsort	p. 151
Heaps	p. 151
Maintaining the heap property	p. 154
Building a heap	p. 156
The heapsort algorithm	p. 159
Priority queues	p. 162
Quicksort	p. 170
Description of quicksort	p. 170
Performance of quicksort	p. 174
A randomized version of quicksort	p. 179
Analysis of quicksort	p. 180
Sorting in Linear Time	p. 191
Lower bounds for sorting	p. 191
Counting sort	p. 194
Radix sort	p. 197
Bucket sort	p. 200
Medians and Order Statistics	p. 213
Minimum and maximum	p. 214
Selection in expected linear time	p. 215
Selection in worst-case linear time	p. 220
Data Structures
Introduction	p. 229
Elementary Data Structures	p. 232
Stacks and queues	p. 232
Linked lists	p. 236
Implementing pointers and objects	p. 241
Representing rooted trees	p. 246
Hash Tables	p. 253
Direct-address tables	p. 254
Hash tables	p. 256
Hash functions	p. 262
Open addressing	p. 269
Perfect hashing	p. 277
Binary Search Trees	p. 286
What is a binary search tree?	p. 286
Querying a binary search tree	p. 289
Insertion and deletion	p. 294
Randomly built binary search trees	p. 299
Red-Black Trees	p. 308
Properties of red-black trees	p. 308
Rotations	p. 312
Insertion	p. 315
Deletion	p. 323
Augmenting Data Structures	p. 339
Dynamic order statistics	p. 339
How to augment a data structure	p. 345
Interval trees	p. 348
Advanced Design and Analysis Techniques
Introduction	p. 357
Dynamic Programming	p. 359
Rod cutting	p. 360
Matrix-chain multiplication	p. 370
Elements of dynamic programming	p. 378
Longest common subsequence	p. 390
Optimal binary search trees	p. 397
Greedy Algorithms	p. 414
An activity-selection problem	p. 415
Elements of the greedy strategy	p. 423
Huffman codes	p. 428
Matroids and greedy methods	p. 437
A task-scheduling problem as a matroid	p. 443
Amortized Analysis	p. 451
Aggregate analysis	p. 452
The accounting method	p. 456
The potential method	p. 459
Dynamic tables	p. 463
Advanced Data Structures
Introduction	p. 481
B-Trees	p. 484
Definition of B-trees	p. 488
Basic operations on B-trees	p. 491
Deleting a key from a B-tree	p. 499
Fibonacci Heaps	p. 505
Structure of Fibonacci heaps	p. 507
Mergeable-heap operations	p. 510
Decreasing a key and deleting a node	p. 518
Bounding the maximum degree	p. 523
van Emde Boas Trees	p. 531
Preliminary approaches	p. 532
A recursive structure	p. 536
The van Emde Boas tree	p. 545
Data Structures for Disjoint Sets	p. 561
Disjoint-set operations	p. 561
Linked-list representation of disjoint sets	p. 564
Disjoint-set forests	p. 568
Analysis of union by rank with path compression	p. 573
Graph Algorithms
Introduction	p. 587
Elementary Graph Algorithms	p. 589
Representations of graphs	p. 589
Breadth-first search	p. 594
Depth-first search	p. 603
Topological sort	p. 612
Strongly connected components	p. 615
Minimum Spanning Trees	p. 624
Growing a minimum spanning tree	p. 625
The algorithms of Kruskal and Prim	p. 631
Single-Source Shortest Paths	p. 643
The Bellman-Ford algorithm	p. 651
Single-source shortest paths in directed acyclic graphs	p. 655
Dijkstra's algorithm	p. 658
Difference constraints and shortest paths	p. 664
Proofs of shortest-paths properties	p. 671
All-Pairs Shortest Paths	p. 684
Shortest paths and matrix multiplication	p. 686
The Floyd-Warshall algorithm	p. 693
Johnson's algorithm for sparse graphs	p. 700
Maximum Flow	p. 708
Flow networks	p. 709
The Ford-Fulkerson method	p. 714
Maximum bipartite matching	p. 732
Push-relabel algorithms	p. 736
The relabel-to-front algorithm	p. 748
Selected Topics
Introduction	p. 769
Multithreaded Algorithms	p. 772
The basics of dynamic multithreading	p. 774
Multithreaded matrix multiplication	p. 792
Multithreaded merge sort	p. 797
Matrix Operations	p. 813
Solving systems of linear equations	p. 813
Inverting matrices	p. 827
Symmetric positive-definite matrices and least-squares approximation	p. 832
Linear Programming	p. 843
Standard and slack forms	p. 850
Formulating problems as linear programs	p. 859
The simplex algorithm	p. 864
Duality	p. 879
The initial basic feasible solution	p. 886
Polynomials and the FFT	p. 898
Representing polynomials	p. 900
The DFT and FFT	p. 906
Efficient FFT implementations	p. 915
Number-Theoretic Algorithms	p. 926
Elementary number-theoretic notions	p. 927
Greatest common divisor	p. 933
Modular arithmetic	p. 939
Solving modular linear equations	p. 946
The Chinese remainder theorem	p. 950
Powers of an element	p. 954
The RSA public-key cryptosystem	p. 958
Primality testing	p. 965
Integer factorization	p. 975
String Matching	p. 985
The naive string-matching algorithm	p. 988
The Rabin-Karp algorithm	p. 990
String matching with finite automata	p. 995
The Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm	p. 1002
Computational Geometry	p. 1014
Line-segment properties	p. 1015
Determining whether any pair of segments intersects	p. 1021
Finding the convex hull	p. 1029
Finding the closest pair of points	p. 1039
NP-Completeness	p. 1048
Polynomial time	p. 1053
Polynomial-time verification	p. 1061
NP-completeness and reducibility	p. 1067
NP-completeness proofs	p. 1078
NP-complete problems	p. 1086
Approximation Algorithms	p. 1106
The vertex-cover problem	p. 1108
The traveling-salesman problem	p. 1111
The set-covering problem	p. 1117
Randomization and linear programming	p. 1123
The subset-sum problem	p. 1128
Appendix: Mathematical Background
Introduction	p. 1143
Summations	p. 1145
Summation formulas and properties	p. 1145
Bounding summations	p. 1149
Sets, Etc.	p. 1158
Sets	p. 1158
Relations	p. 1163
Functions	p. 1166
Graphs	p. 1168
Trees	p. 1173
Counting and Probability	p. 1183
Counting	p. 1183
Probability	p. 1189
Discrete random variables	p. 1196
The geometric and binomial distributions	p. 1201
The tails of the binomial distribution	p. 1208
Matrices	p. 1217
Matrices and matrix operations	p. 1217
Basic matrix properties	p. 1222
Bibliography	p. 1231
Index	p. 1251
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