Algorithms For The Real World

AY2024/2025 Semester 2

With the development of digitalization, algorithms have become more and more pervasive in our lives, and this trend is likely to accelerate in the future. Almost all industries are now widely embracing the possibilities offered by efficient algorithms. How can companies with a huge amount of data search in their database? How can your map application find the shortest path from your location to a certain destination? How can Internet packets be routed to maximize the efficiency of the network? How can you render electricity distribution more efficient? How booking websites manage to find for you the best hotels according to several criterions? Etc. The aim of this course is to show you some crucial algorithmic paradigms, while using strong connections to real-world applications as examples. This will allow you to learn new problem-solving techniques and very important algorithms, while developing your general knowledge in where and how algorithms are actually used in real-world applications.