Berman, Kenneth A.

Fundamentals of sequential and parallel algorithms / Sequential and parallel algorithms Kenneth A. Berman and Jerome L. Paul. - Boston, Mass. : PWS Pub., c1997. - xxiii, 744 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes index.

Preface. - Pseudocode Conventions for Sequential Algorithms. - 1. Introduction and Preliminaries. - 2. Elementary Data Structures. - 3. Design and Analysis of Sequential Algorithms. - 4. Sequential Sorting Algorithms and Their Analysis. - 5. Introduction to Parallel Algorithms and Architectures. - 6. Parallel Sorting. - 7. Induction, Correctness Proofs, and Recurrence Relations. - 8. Graphs, Diagraphs, and Sets. - 9. Probability and Average Complexity of Algorithms. - 10. Introduction to Lower Bound Theory. - 11. Parallel Prefix, Matrix Multiplication, and Pointer Jumping. - 12. The Greedy Method. - 13. Divide and Conquer. - 14. Dynamic Programming. - 15. Backtracking and Branch-and-Bound. - 16. Heuristic Search: A*-Search, Game Trees. - 17. The Dictionary Problem: Hashing and Balanced Trees. - 18. Probabilistic Algorithms. - 19. Graph Algorithms. - 20. NP-Complete Problems and the Class NC. - Index.

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Computer algorithms.
Parallel processing (Electronic computers)
Sequential processing (Computer science)

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