Approximations, NP-Completeness and Algorithms

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Epsilon approximations, PTAS and FPTAS. Techniques for the design of approximation algrorithms. P, NP, NP-complete problems, polynomial transformations, Turing reductions, strong NP-completeness, NP-hardness and inapproximability results. Topics in algorithms include: amortized analysis, advanced graph algorithms and data structures.