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A Taxonomy of Algorithms used in the ACM Programming Competition

A Taxonomy of Algorithms used in the ACM Programming Competition. Douglas Hobson Supervisor: A.J. Ebden. Project Specification. The hypothesis is that the problems each year in the ACM Programming Competition have been drawn from the same set of algorithms

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A Taxonomy of Algorithms used in the ACM Programming Competition

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  1. A Taxonomy of Algorithms used in the ACM Programming Competition Douglas Hobson Supervisor: A.J. Ebden

  2. Project Specification • The hypothesis is that the problems each year in the ACM Programming Competition have been drawn from the same set of algorithms • I will attempt derive all of or part of this set of algorithms • Solve as many of the problems as possible • Derive a classification of the algorithms.

  3. Background • Every year students from RU take part in the ACM Programming Competition

  4. Resources • “Algorithmics: The Spirit of Computing” by David Harel • Top Coder - practice and technique, algorithms etc • USACO – more of the same • ACM Digital Library

  5. Local and International ACM Programming Competition websites • Both have many problem sets and statistics about the competition • They have the problem sets that I will be looking at

  6. Proposed Timeline

  7. Sample Problem

  8. Deliverables • List of algorithms appearing in the ACM Programming Competition • Their frequency of appearance • Level of difficulty: for humans and machines.

  9. Possible Extensions • Tutorial could be developed on how to approach the ACM Programming Competition • Method of ranking algorithms for their level of difficulty for humans • Analyse and formulate algorithms from the board game Go. • Classification of all algorithms, not just ACM – AI, chess, video games, sorting, searching etc.

  10. Are there any questions? • Any comments or suggestions are also welcome

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