Algorithmic Strategies: Heuristics and Approximation
Students explore heuristic approaches and approximation algorithms for problems where exact solutions are impractical or too slow.
Key Questions
- Explain the concept of a heuristic and when it is useful.
- Analyze a simple approximation algorithm and its trade-offs.
- Design a heuristic approach for a real-world optimization problem.
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