1. Lecture 38 CSE 331 Dec 3, 2010

2. A new grading proposal Towards your final score in the course MAX ( mid-term as 25%+ finals as 40%, finals as 65%) Email me any objections (or support) by Monday, Dec 6, noon Individual choice for every student

3. Homework stuff http://xkcd.com/336/ HW 10 posted Graded HW 9 pickups: my office hours today Jeff/Alex next week

4. Weighted Interval Scheduling Input: n jobs (s i,t i,v i ) Output: A schedule S s.t. no two jobs in S have a conflict Goal: max Σ j in S v j Assume: jobs are sorted by their finish time

5. Property of OPT OPT(j) = max { v j + OPT( p(j) ), OPT(j-1) }

6. A recursive algorithm M-Compute-Opt(j) If j = 0 then return 0 M[j] = max { v j + M-Compute-Opt( p(j) ), M-Compute-Opt( j-1 ) } If M[j] is not null then return M[j] return M[j] M-Compute-Opt(j) = OPT(j) Run time = O(# recursive calls)

7. Bounding # recursions M-Compute-Opt(j) If j = 0 then return 0 M[j] = max { v j + M-Compute-Opt( p(j) ), M-Compute-Opt( j-1 ) } If M[j] is not null then return M[j] return M[j] Whenever a recursive call is made an M value of assigned At most n values of M can be assigned O(n) overall

9. Property of OPT OPT(j) = max { v j + OPT( p(j) ), OPT(j-1) } Given OPT(1), …, OPT(j-1), one can compute OPT(j) Given OPT(1), …, OPT(j-1), one can compute OPT(j)

10. Recursion+ memory = Iteration Iteratively compute the OPT(j) values M[0] = 0 M[j] = max { v j + M[p(j)], M[j-1] } For j=1,…,n Iterative-Compute-Opt M[j] = OPT(j) O(n) run time

11. Reading Assignment Sec 6.1, 6.2 of [KT]

12. When to use Dynamic Programming There are polynomially many sub-problems Optimal solution can be computed from solutions to sub-problems There is an ordering among sub-problem that allows for iterative solution Richard Bellman

13. Shortest Path Problem Input: (Directed) Graph G=(V,E) and for every edge e has a cost c e (can be <0) t in V Output: Shortest path from every s to t 1 1 100 -1000 899 s t Shortest path has cost negative infinity Assume that G has no negative cycle

14. Today’s agenda Dynamic Program for shortest path

15. May the Bellman force be with you