Overview
The primary topics in this part of the Shortest Paths Revisited, NP-Complete Problems and What To Do About Them course offered by Coursera in partnership with Stanford are: shortest paths (Bellman-Ford, Floyd-Warshall, Johnson), NP-completeness and what it means for the algorithm designer, and strategies for coping with computationally intractable problems (analysis of heuristics, local search).
Skills You Will Gain
- Data Structure
- Algorithms
- Np-Completeness
- Dynamic Programming
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Courses included:
- Week 1
The Bellman-Ford algorithm; all-pairs shortest paths.
- Week 2
NP-complete problems and exact algorithms for them.
- Week 3
Approximation algorithms for NP-complete problems.
- Week 4
Local search algorithms for NP-complete problems; the wider world of algorithms.
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Duration
- Part-time
- 1 months
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Visit programme websiteAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
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General requirements
- Intermediate Level
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Funding
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