The previous article in this issue dealt with the general principles of Dynamic Programming. In this article Professor Lindley shows how Dynamic Programming links up with certain decision problems in ...

IEMS 469: Dynamic Programming VIEW ALL COURSE TIMES AND SESSIONS Prerequisites Basic knowledge of probability (random variables, expectation, conditional probability), optimization (gradient), ...

In particular, we show that a nonstandard approach we call "left-right" dynamic programming is better suited for this problem than the standard "bottom-up" approach, and we show how this "left-right" ...

It covers basic algorithm design techniques such as divide and conquer, dynamic programming, and greedy algorithms. It concludes with a brief introduction to intractability (NP-completeness) .