I012 Complexity

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 1998
Extent and Intensity
3/0. 3 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium), z (credit).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Ivana Černá, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Ivana Černá, CSc.
Prerequisites
I005 Formal Languages and Automata I
Before enrolling this course the students should go through I005 Formal Languages and Automata I.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Syllabus
  • Problems and algorithms
  • Basic computational models and complexity measures.
  • Relations between complexity classes. Turing thesis.
  • Reductions and completeness. NP-complete problems.
  • coNP and function problems.
  • Lower bounds.
  • Randomized computation, randomized complexity classes.
  • Parallel computation. Parallel models of computation, the class NC. Parallel computation thesis.
  • Approximability. Approximation algorithms and their performance. Nonapproximability.
  • Applications: Cryptography and one-way functions.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Teacher's information
http://www.fi.muni.cz/usr/cerna/i012.html
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 1995, Autumn 1996, Autumn 1997, Autumn 1999, Autumn 2000, Autumn 2001, Autumn 2002, Autumn 2003.
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