Computer Science 385
Design and Analysis of Algorithms
Spring 2017, Siena College
Lecture 23: P, NP, and NP-Complete Problems
Date: Monday, April 24, 2017
Agenda
- Announcements
- Please bring laptops to lab tomorrow
- Review problems out
- Limitations of Algorithms
- lower bounds
- trivial lower bounds
- adversary arguments
- problem reduction
- the P and NP classes
- tractability
- class P
- class NP
- NP-complete problems