ICS 161, Winter 1996:
Design and Analysis of Algorithms

Glossary

• Acyclic graph
• Adjacency list
• Adjacency matrix
• Airflow simulation
• Airline schedule
• Alpha-beta search
• Alternating path
• Alternation
• Analysis of algorithms
• Approximation
• Average
• Average case analysis
• Back edge
• Banabono
• Basketball
• Best case analysis
• Beta function
• BFS
• Binary heap
• Binary search
• Binary space partition
• Boolean logic
• Boruvka's algorithm
• Bottom-up dynamic programming
• Bounded halting
• Boyer-Moore algorithm
• Breadth first search
• Breadth first search tree
• BSP tree
• Bucket sort
• C preprocessor
• Cartesian product
• Chess
• Christofides' heuristic
• Circuit
• Comment
• Comparison graph
• Comparison sorting
• Compiler design
• Complete graph
• Component graph
• Computational complexity theory
• Concatenation
• Condensation
• Connectivity
• Convex hull
• Convex polygon
• Cook's theorem
• Cross edge
• Cryptography
• DAG
• Decision tree
• Deep Blue
• Depth first search
• Depth first search tree
• Deterministic finite automaton
• Deterministic selection
• DFA
• DFS
• DFS numbering
• Diff
• Differential equation
• Dijkstra's algorithm
• Directed acyclic graph
• Directed graph
• Divide and conquer
• DNA
• Doom
• Drill scheduling
• Dynamic programming
• Edge
• Emacs
• Empty bottle
• Encryption
• Equivalence class
• Equivalence relation
• Evaluation function
• Expected case analysis
• Exponential time
• Even length strings
• Family tree
• Fermat's last theorem
• Fibonacci heaps
• Fibonacci numbers
• File comparison
• File storage
• Finite element method
• Finite state machine
• Forward edge
• FSM
• Gadget
• Game tree
• Gene comparison
• Geometric series
• Goto statement
• Graham scan
• Graph
• Graph algorithms
• Graph coloring
• Graph representation
• Grep
• Halfspace
• Halting problem
• Harmonic series
• Head of component
• Heap property
• Heap selection
• Heap sort
• Heapification
• Heuristic
• Hybrid MST algorithm
• Incidence list
• Incidence matrix
• Incremental algorithm
• Indentation
• Infinite loop
• Inorder traversal
• Inside
• Integer factorization
• Iteration
• Iterative algorithm
• Iterative dynamic programming
• Jordan curve theorem
• Key
• Knot
• Known plaintext attack
• Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm
• Kruskal's algorithm
• Language
• Leftmost point
• Longest common subsequence
• Longest common substring
• Longest path
• Longest simple path
• Low value
• Lower bound
• Lower chain
• Matching
• Matrix multiplication
• Mean
• Median
• Median of medians
• Megabyte
• Memoization
• Merge sort
• Mesh generation
• Minimum spanning tree
• Mode
• Molecular biology
• Multiple solutions
• Nano
• Nematode knowledge
• Nondeterministic polynomial time
• Non-Euclidean geometry
• NP
• NP-complete
• O-notation
• Object oriented representation (of graphs)
• Omega-notation
• One-way road
• Order statistics
• Outside
• Overlap
• P
• P=NP
• Parallel parking
• Partition problem
• Pattern graph
• Pattern matching
• Partial match
• Phone network design
• Polygon
• Polynomial space
• Polynomial time
• Prefix
• Prim's algorithm
• Preorder traversal
• Point in polygon
• Postorder traversal
• Printed circuit board
• Pseudo-code
• PSPACE
• Public key cryptography
• Queue
• Quick selection
• Quick sort
• Rabbits
• Radix sort
• Randomized algorithm
• Ray
• Recurrence relation
• Recursive dynamic programming
• Reduction
• Reflexive property
• Register allocation
• Regular expression
• Relation
• Rightmost point
• Road map
• Robot motion planning
• RSA encryption
• Sample selection
• Satisfiability
• Scientific computation
• Screen redisplay
• Selection
• Selection sorting
• Semiconnected
• Sequential search
• Shorten
• Shortest accepted string
• Shortest path
• Simple path
• Simple polygon
• Single-source shortest path problem
• Sorting
• Sorting algorithms
• Sorting floating point numbers
• Space complexity
• Space-efficient dynamic programming
• Spanning tree
• Stability of sorting algorithms
• Stack
• State
• State diagram
• String matching
• String sorting
• Strong connectivity algorithm
• Strongly connected
• Strongly connected component
• Subgraph isomorphism
• Subsequence
• Suffix
• Suffix tree
• Symmetric property
• Task scheduling
• Text editor
• Top-down dynamic programming
• Topological ordering
• Tournament
• Transition table
• Transitive property
• Traveling salesman problem
• Traversal
• Triangulation
• Turning radius
• Unary notation
• Undecidable
• Undirected graph
• Unequal divide and conquer
• Union-find problem
• Unreachable states
• Upper chain
• Vertex
• Video games
• VLSI circuit design
• Weakly connected
• Wildcard
• Worst case analysis

ICS 161 -- Dept. Information & Computer Science -- UC Irvine
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