CSUDH Computer Science Department

CSC401: Analysis of Algorithms

CSC501: Algorithm Design and Analysis

Final Examination (open book)

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All questions are equally credited.

1. Dynamic programming: Warshall’s algorithm uses dynamic programming technique

to compute the transitive closure of a directed graph based on the adjacency matrix.
However, Warshall’s algorithm uses many intermediate matrices which are not
necessary. Explain how to implement Warshall’s algorithm without using extra
memory for storing elements of the algorithm’s intermediate matrices. And then
rewrite your modified algorithm (pseudo-code).
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2. Greedy technique: Consider the single machine scheduling problem where we are
given a set of T of tasks specified by their start time and end times. We wish to
maximize the number of tasks that this single machine performs. Design a greedy
algorithm for this single machine scheduling problem and analyze the running time of
your algorithm. Suppose you are given a set of tasks specified by pairs of the start
times and finish times as T={(1,4), (1,3), (1,2), (2,4), (3,7), (4,8), (5,6), (6,8), (7,9)}.
Solve the task scheduling problem for this set of tasks using your greedy algorithm.
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3. Iterative improvement: Consider a network that is a rooted tree, with the root as its
source, the leaves as its sinks, and all the edges directed along the paths from the root
to the leaves. Design an efficient algorithm for finding a maximum flow in such a
network. Analyze the time efficiency of your algorithm?
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4. Limitations of Algorithm Power:
1) What is the tight lower bound of a problem?
2) What are the CIRCUIT-SAT problem and the VERTEX-COVER problem?
3) True or False: A P problem is one that can be solved in polynomial time,
while a NP problem is one that can not be solved in polynomial time.
4) Describe the process of showing that a problem is NP-Complete.
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5. Branch and Bound: Assignment problem is to assign n people to n jobs so that the
total cost of the assignment is as small as possible.
1) Give an example of the best-case input for the branch-and-bound algorithm
for the assignment problem.
2) In the best-case, how many nodes will be in the state-space tree of the branch-
and-bound algorithm for the assignment problem.
3) Explain what the best-first branch-and-bound strategy is.
4) Solve the following instance of the assignment problem by the best-first
branch-and-bound algorithm with the bounding function based on matrix
columns rather than rows (Note: The textbook solves the problem with the
bounding function based on matrix rows).
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6. (CSC501 only) NP-Complete problem: A SUBSET-SUM problem is defined as:
Given a set of integers and a distinguished integer K, is there a subset of the integers
that sums to K?
A PARTITION problem is defined as: Given a set S = {s1, s2, ... , sn} of numbers and
asks if there is a subset T of S such that Σt∈Tt = Σs∈S-Ts . That is, it asks if there is a
partition of the numbers into two groups that sum to the same value.
Given that the SUBSET-SUM problem is NP-Complete, show that the PARTITION
problem is NP-complete.