Introduction to Computational Complexity (MAE542)

Undergraduate Courses Outlines - Department of Mathematics

General

School	School of Science
Academic Unit	Department of Mathematics
Level of Studies	Undergraduate
Course Code	MAE542
Semester	5
Course Title	Introduction to Computational Complexity
Independent Teaching Activities	Lectures, exercises, tutorials (Weekly Teaching Hours: 3, Credits: 6)
Course Type	Special Background
Prerequisite Courses	-
Language of Instruction and Examinations	Greek
Is the Course Offered to Erasmus Students	Yes
Course Website (URL)	See eCourse, the Learning Management System maintained by the University of Ioannina.

Learning Outcomes

Learning outcomes	This course aims at introducing to students the concepts of time and space complexities for solving difficult problems. After successfully passing this course the students will be able to: Understand complexity classes Push further techniques for solving difficult problems Understand difficult problems by using reductions.
General Competences	Search for, analysis and synthesis of data and information, with the use of the necessary technology Working independently Team work Project planning and management

Syllabus

ΝΡ and Computational Intractibility
The class of PSPACE
Extending the limits of tractability
Approximation Algorithms
Local search.
Randomized algorithms

Teaching and Learning Methods - Evaluation

Delivery

Lectures

Use of Information and Communications Technology

Use of projector and interactive board during lectures.

Teaching Methods

Activity	Semester Workload
Lectures	39
Working independently	78
Exercises-Homeworks	33
Course total	150

Student Performance Evaluation

Final written examination (70%)
Exercises / Homework (30%)

Attached Bibliography

See the official Eudoxus site or the local repository of Eudoxus lists per academic year, which is maintained by the Department of Mathematics. Books and other resources, not provided by Eudoxus:

Computational Complexity, Christos Papadimitriou.
Computers and Intractability, M. R. Garey and D. S. Johnson.
J. Kleinberg and E. Tardos, Σχεδιασμός Αλγορίθμων, ελληνική έκδοση, Εκδόσεις Κλειδάριθμος, 2008
T. Cormen, C. Leiserson, R. Rivest, and C. Stein, Εισαγωγή στους Αλγορίθμους, ελληνική έκδοση, Πανεπιστημιακές Εκδόσεις Κρήτης, 2012.