I teach Algorithms and Data Structures II (NTIN061) every Monday at 15:40 at S3 (Malá strana).

If you want to talk to me, send me an email at koutecky+ads2@iuuk.mff.cuni.cz and/or include the text [ADS2] in the email subject, or message me on discord etc. We will then figure out a time and place (physical, zoom, etc.) to meet.

• Notes from Andrej Perković (100MB file) (no guarantee of correctness, email him if you find bugs: arachneen_octogone.0c@icloud.com)

The exam will consist of:

1. Two questions about an algorithm or a data structure from the lecture – describing the algorithm or data structure, proving they are correct, giving the complexity analysis. (With „big“ topics I will ask about a specific part of an algorithm, or for an overview of the algorithm. No need to reproduce 2 lectures worth of material as your first answer.)
2. Two tasks similar to those from the tutorial – either apply an algorithm / data structure from the lecture to some problem (need to model the problem appropriately) OR adapt the algorithm / data structure to solve some problem (need to understand how it works internally to be able to adapt it appropriately)

The form of the exam is that you will come, get the question sheet, and work on the answers. Once you are finished with one of the answers, you hand it in, I will read it, point out anything which is missing / incorrect, give you hints if needed, and you can revise it. At some point either you will reach a correct solution, or you won’t want to try to improve it again, or I will feel like I can’t give you any more hints, and then we’ll reach some grade.

To get a 3 it roughly suffices to (operationally!) know definitions and algorithms / data structures and (with hints) finish at least one of the “type 2” tasks (perhaps suboptimally).

To get a 2 you need to be able to solve the tasks with some hints, or find a suboptimal (complexity) algorithm. If we proved some intermediate claims during the lecture, and these are used in the proofs of correctness/complexity, you need to at least know the statements of these claims.

To get a 1 you need to analyze the algorithms (correctness and complexity) including the proofs, and you need to be able to solve the “type 2” tasks mostly independently. (Advice like “try dynamic programming” and similar is still fine though.)

I am extremely annoyed by people trying to cheat at the exam, and if I see anything fishy that you don't satisfactorily explain at the moment, you have failed the exam, you will be reported, and you won't have another chance at taking the exam with me. Don't cheat.

Disclaimer: the topics below are NOT specific instances of “type 1” questions. It is clear that some topics are wider and some narrower. However, if you have a good understanding of all the topics below, you should not be surprised by anything during the exam.

• String searching – problem definition, basic notions and lemmas
  • Knuth-Morris-Pratt Algorithm
  • Aho-Corasick Algorithm
  • Rabin-Karp Algorithm
• Network Flows – problem definition, notions, lemmas
  • Ford-Fulkerson
  • Dinitz
  • Goldberg
• FFT: definitions, algorithm, how to multiply polynomials quickly
• Parallel Algorithms / Circuits
  • Fast Addition
  • Fast Sorting
• Geometric Algorithms
  • Convex Hull
  • Line Segment Intersections
• Reductions
  • Definitions of most important NP-hard problems: SAT, IS, VC, Clique, 3DM, SubsetSum
  • P, NP, NP-complete, NP-hard
  • Cook's theorem *(statement only)*
• Dealing with NP-hardness
  • IndSet on Trees
  • Coloring of Interval Graphs
  • Approximation algorithms *(definition)*
  • $2$-approximation of $\Delta$-TSP
  • Non-existence of an $O(1)$-approximation for (unrestricted) TSP
  • Pseudopolynomial algorithm for Knapsack; FPTAS for Knapsack.