- 255 pages
- English
- PDF
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A Programmer's Companion to Algorithm Analysis
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Until now, no other book examined the gap between the theory of algorithms and the production of software programs. Focusing on practical issues, A Programmer's Companion to Algorithm Analysis carefully details the transition from the design and analysis of an algorithm to the resulting software program. Consisting of two main complementary
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Preface
- Contents
- Foreword
- Part 1. The Algorithm Side: Regularity, Predictability, and Asymptotics
- Chapter 1. A Taxonomy of Algorithmic Complexity
- Chapter 2. Fundamental Assumptions Underlying Algorithmic Complexity
- Chapter 3. Examples of Complexity Analysis
- Part 2. The Software Side: Disappointments and How to Avoid Them
- Chapter 4. Sources of Disappointments
- Chapter 5. Implications of Nonuniform Memory for Software
- Chapter 6. Implications of Compiler and Systems Issues for Software
- Chapter 7. Implicit Assumptions
- Chapter 8. Implications of the Finiteness of the Representation of Numbers
- Chapter 9. Asymptotic Complexities and the Selection of Algorithms
- Chapter 10. Infeasibility and Undecidability: Implications for Software Development
- Part 3. Conclusion
- Appendix I: Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know
- Appendix II: Overview of Systems Implicated in Program Analysis
- Appendix III: NP-Completeness and Higher Complexity Classes
- Appendix IV: Review of Undecidability
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover
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