Syllabus for |
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| Syllabus adopted 2014-02-25 by Head of Programme (or corresponding) |
| Owner: MPALG |
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7,5 Credits |
| Grading: TH - Five, Four, Three, Not passed |
| Education cycle: Second-cycle |
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Major subject: Computer Science and Engineering, Information Technology
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Department: 37 - COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
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The course is full
Teaching language: English
Open for exchange students
Block schedule:
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Grading: TH |
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In programs
MPALG COMPUTER SCIENCE - ALGORITHMS, LANGUAGES AND LOGIC, MSC PROGR, Year 1 (compulsory elective)
MPALG COMPUTER SCIENCE - ALGORITHMS, LANGUAGES AND LOGIC, MSC PROGR, Year 2 (elective)
MPCSN COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS, MSC PROGR, Year 1 (elective)
TKITE SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, Year 3 (elective)
MPCAS COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS, MSC PROGR, Year 2 (elective)
MPSYS SYSTEMS, CONTROL AND MECHATRONICS, MSC PROGR, Year 1 (compulsory elective)
Examiner:
Professor
Devdatt Dubhashi
Bitr professor
Peter Damaschke
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Eligibility:
In order to be eligible for a second cycle course the applicant needs to fulfil the general and specific entry requirements of the programme that owns the course. (If the second cycle course is owned by a first cycle programme, second cycle entry requirements apply.)
Exemption from the eligibility requirement:
Applicants enrolled in a programme at Chalmers where the course is included in the study programme are exempted from fulfilling these requirements.
Course specific prerequisites
Mathematics (including Discrete mathematics and Linear algebra), Programming, Algorithms and/or data structures.
Aim
The topic of the course is the theory and practice of optimization problems over discrete structures, and has strong connections to Optimization Theory (linear programming), Computer Science (algorithms and complexity), and Operational Research. Problems of this kind arise in many different contexts including transportation, telecommunications, industrial planning, finance, bioinformatics, hardware design and cryptology.
A characteristic property of these problems are that they are difficult to solve. The course intends to develop the skill of modelling real problems and to use mathematical and algorithmic tools to solve them, optimally or heuristically.
Learning outcomes (after completion of the course the student should be able to)
- identify optimization problems in various application domains,
- formulate them in exact mathematical models that capture the essentials
of the real problems but are still manageable by computational methods,
- assess which problem class a given problem belongs to,
- apply linear programming, related generic methods, and additional
heuristics, to computational problems,
- explain the geometry of linear programming,
- dualize optimization problems and use the dual forms to obtain bounds,
- work with the scientific literature in the field.
Content
modelling, linear programs and integer linear programs and their geometric
properties, duality in
optimization, branch-and-bound and other heuristics, some special graph
algorithms
Organisation
Lectures and homework assignments.
Literature
See separate literature list.
Examination
Assignments and home exam.