A programmer's companion to algorithm analysis /
This book details the transition from the design and analysis of an algorithm to the resulting software program. Consisting of two main parts, the book emphasizes the concrete aspects of translating an algorithm into software that should perform based on what the algorithm analysis indicated. In the...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Boca Raton :
Chapman & Hall/CRC,
©2007.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This book details the transition from the design and analysis of an algorithm to the resulting software program. Consisting of two main parts, the book emphasizes the concrete aspects of translating an algorithm into software that should perform based on what the algorithm analysis indicated. In the first part, the author describes the idealized universe that algorithm designers inhabit while the second part outlines how this ideal can be adapted to the real world of programming. The book explores analysis techniques, including crossover points, the influence of the memory hierarchy, implications of programming language aspects, such as recursion, and problems arising from excessively high computational complexities of solution methods. It concludes with four appendices that discuss basic algorithms; memory hierarchy, virtual memory management, optimizing compilers, and garbage collection; NP-completeness and higher complexity classes; and undecidability in practical terms. Applying the theory of algorithms to the production of software, this book fulfills the needs of software programmers and developers as well as students by showing that with the correct algorithm, you can achieve a functional software program. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (255 pages) : illustrations |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-249) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781420011708 1420011707 1584886730 9781584886730 |