| TEXTBOOKS | ASSIGNED CHAPTERS |
|---|---|
[Algorithms] =  Horowitz, Ellis, Sartaj Sahni, and Sanguthevar Rajasekaran. Computer Algorithms / C++. Summit, NJ: Silicon Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780929306421. | 1-6, 8 (most sections) |
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Cormen, Thomas, Charles Leiserson, Ronald Rivest, and Clifford Stein. Introduction to Algorithms. 2nd ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780262032933. | None. Use to supplement Horowitz as needed. |
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Horstmann, Cay. Big Java. 4th ed. New York, NY: Wiley, 2009. ISBN: 9780470509487. | None. Use as a Java reference. |
| [SQL] = Syverson, Bryan, and Joel Murach. Murach’s SQL Server 2005 for Developers. Fresno, CA: Murach & Associates, 2006. | 1-7 |
| [JDBC] = Fisher, Maydene, Jon Ellis, and Jonathan Bruce. JDBC API Tutorial and Reference. 3rd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003. ISBN: 9780321173843. | 1-2 |
| [Newell] = Newell, C. Application of Queuing Theory. New York, NY: Springer, 1982. ISBN: 9780412245008. | 1-2 |
| [Press] = Press, William, Saul Teukolsky, William Vetterling, and Brian Flannery. Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing. 3rd ed. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780521880688. | 2 |
| [Sheffi] = Sheffi, Yosef. Urban Transportation Networks: Equilibrium Analysis with Mathematical Programming Methods. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1985. ISBN: 9780139397295. | 4, 5.1-5.2 |
| [Kocur] = Kocur, George, and Chris Hendrickson. "Design of Local Bus Service with Demand Equilibration." Transportation Science 16, no. 2 (1982): 149-170. | All |
Readings by Session
| LEC # | TOPICS | READINGS |
|---|---|---|
| Databases | ||
| 1 | Database: Entity-relationship modeling | SQL 9 |
| 2 | Database: Normalization, SQL basics | SQL 1-3, 7 |
| 3 | Database: SQL joins, views, subqueries | SQL 4-6 |
| 4 | Database: JDBC | JDBC 1-2 |
| Data Structures | ||
| 5 | Algorithms: Analysis, complexity | Algorithms 1 |
| 6 | Stacks, queues, trees, dictionaries | Algorithms 2.1-2.3 |
| 7 | Graphs | Algorithms 2.6 |
| 8 | Heaps, sets | Algorithms 2.4-2.5 |
| Divide-and-conquer and Greedy Algorithms | ||
| 9 | Divide-conquer: Binary search, quicksort, selection | Algorithms 3.1-3.3, 3.5-3.6 |
| 10 | Greedy: Knapsack, job sequence | Algorithms 4.1-4.2, 4.4 |
| 11 | Greedy: Minimum spanning trees | Algorithms 4.5 |
| 12 | Greedy/dynamic programming: Shortest paths | Algorithms 4.8 |
| Quiz 1 | ||
| Dynamic Programming | ||
| 13 | Priniciple of optimality, resource allocation | Algorithms 5.1-5.2 |
| 14 | Job scheduling, graph/tree generation | |
| 15 | Knapsack problem, set representation | Algorithms 5.7 |
| Branch-and-bound | ||
| 16 | Branch and bound: Backtrack method, knapsack problem | Algorithms 7.1, 7.6 |
| 17 | Branch and bound: General method, facility location | Algorithms 8.1-8.2 |
| Linear and Nonlinear Optimization | ||
| 18 | Continuous constrained nonlinear optimization | Sheffi 3-3.2, 4.1, 4.3 |
| 19 | Network equilibrium | Sheffi 5.1-5.2 |
| 20 | Linear systems | Press 2 |
| 21 | Continuous unconstrained nonlinear optimization | Press 10 |
| 22 | Unconstrained methods: Amoeba, BFGS, demand model estimation | |
| Approximate Queues and Network Designs | ||
| 23 | Analytic approximations: Network design | Kocur |
| 24 | Approximate queuing analysis | Newell 1, 2 |