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Lecture Contents CSI5165 Fall 2014

Lecture slides (currently from previous years, updates may occur as we go):

  1. Introduction
  2. Generating elementary combinatorial objects
  3. Exhaustive generation and backtracking
  4. Heuristic search
  5. Computing Isomorphism,
    Isomorph-free Exhaustive Generation

Tentative schedule (it will be updated as changes occur):
dates and tasks  Lecture Contents: textbook sections
and extra materials
Sep 8 Introduction
Generating elementary combinatorial objects.
KS: ch1, ch2
Sep 15 Generating elementary combinatorial objects. KS: ch2
Sep 22 Generating elementary combinatorial objects. KS: ch2
Sep 29 Backtracking. KS: ch4
Oct 6 Backtracking KS: ch4
Oct 12-18 Study break. -
Oct 13 Backtracking.
Reverse Search (still exhaustive search)
KS: ch4
Oct 20 Heuristic Search KS: ch5
Oct 27 Heuristic Search KS: ch5
Nov 3 Computing Isomorphism KS: ch7
Nov 10 Computing Isomorphism KS: ch7
Nov 17 Isomorphi-free exhaustive generation KO: ch3, ch4
Nov 24 Isomorph-free exhaustive generation KO: ch3, ch4
Dec 1 Project Presentations Presence is compulsory
to all talks.