Bachelor
2023/2024
Computational Complexity Theory
Type:
Elective course (Software Engineering)
Area of studies:
Software Engineering
Delivered by:
Big Data and Information Retrieval School
Where:
Faculty of Computer Science
When:
4 year, 1-3 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of one campus
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
10
Contact hours:
60
Course Syllabus
Abstract
This course teaches a mathematical theory that helps to invent better algorithms. With “better” we mean that the algorithms use fewer resources such as time or memory. We also consider parallel computation, distributed systems and learning problems. In these settings we might also optimize other types of resources. For example, in distributed systems we might want to minimize the amount of communication. We focuss on worst case guarantees. A large part of our time is devoted to the study of what is not possible. In other words, we study fundamental barriers for the existence of programs that use fewer resources than a given bound.