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DATA STRUCTURES AND ALGORITHMS
BGU Communication & Systems Engeneering
Syllabus
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Inroduction and motivation with few examples (mainly from interviews for jobs in industry)
Big-O, Omega, Theta and analyzing running time of programs.
Recurrences and solutions.
Lists (stack and queue implementations).
Median and order statistics.
Binary search and binary (search) trees: definition, traversal, recursion.
Heap : heapsort, priority queue, Huffman code, Fibonacci heaps.
Balanced search trees, case study : AVL trees. High-dimensional trees and fractional cascading.
Data structure for disjoint sets.
Hashing : linear probing, quadratic probing, double hashing, chaining.
Sorting in linear time.
Greedy algorithms.
Dynamic programming.
String matching.
FFT and fast polynom multiplication.
Randomized algorithms.
Remainder about graphs: basic terminology, DFS, BFS, topological sort.
Introduction to Turing machines.
NP-completness
Textbooks
 Introduction to Algorithms, T.H.Cormen, C.E.Leiserson, R.L.Rivest , MIT Press, 1991.
 Data structures and algorithms, Alfred V. Aho, John E. Hopcroft, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Addison-Wesley,
1983.
 The design and analysis of computer algorithms, Alfred V. Aho, John E. Hopcroft, Jeffrey D. Ullman,
Addison-Wesley, 1974.
 Data Structures & Their Algorithms, Lewis and Denenberg, 1997. Harper Collins Publishers
 Data Structures in Java, M. Goodrich, R. Tamassia, 1998.
 Fundamentals of Data Structures, E.Horowitz, S.Sahni, Computer Science Press, Inc., Computer
Software Engineering Series, 1976.
 Data Structures & Program Design, R. L. Kruse, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1987.
 Algorithms, Data Structures, and Problem solving with C++, M. A. Weiss, Addison-Wesley, 1999.
Administration
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Lecturer:
o Dr. Michael Segal
 Office: 307
 Office hours: Wednesday, 13:00-15:00.
Teaching Assistant:
o Itzik Kitroser
 Office: TBA
 Office hours: TBA
The grade:
o 60% final exam, 40% homework assignments. Must pass exam with grade higher than
55. Some frontal checking for the selected exercises.