Master Method (4)

Michael L. Littman

September 11th, 1997

• ANNOUNCEMENTS
  • Office Hour Change
• A NORMAL FORM
  • Putting Bounds in Simplest Form
  • Addition Rule
  • Multiplication Rule
  • More Rules
  • Summary
• SENSE OF SCALE
  • Preview
  • How They Scale
  • Heavy Hitters
  • Superlinear
  • Linear
  • Zooming In
  • Superlog
  • Log and Below
• SOLVING RECURRENCES
  • The Substitution Method
  • Making Good Guesses
  • The Iteration Method
  • Terminating the Iteration
  • The Table Method
  • Recursion Tree
  • Summary
• CATALOG OF RECURRENCES
  • Introduction
  • Linear
  • Log
  • Quadratic
  • Exponential
  • N Log N
• MASTER METHOD
  • Basic Idea
  • The Master Tree
  • The Theorem
  • Justification
  • The Gaps
  • Examples
• HOMEWORK
  • Homework 1
  • Homework 2