MAE 552 – Heuristic Optimization Lecture 27 April 3, 2002 Topic:Branch and Bound and Tree Search.
Is solving harder than checking? Oded Goldreich Weizmann Institute of Science.
Randomized Algorithm. NP-Complete Problem A problem that, right now, we need exhaustive search Example: SAT TSP Vertex Cover Etc.
Dealing with NP-C problems