算法是计算机科学技术中处于核心地位的一门专业基础课，课程除系统介绍一些常用的经典算法设计技术并进行详细的复杂性分析外，还将介绍近似算法、概率算法等近年来发展迅速的技术，同时介绍NP完全问题等复杂性理论的基础内容。通过课程学习，能够理解和掌握算法设计的主要方法，培养对算法复杂性进行正确分析的能力，为今后独立设计算法和对给定算法进行复杂性分析奠定坚实的理论基础。

The field of computer algorithms has flourished since the early 1960's when the users of electronic computers started to pay attention to the performance programs. This course emphasizes most of the algorithm design techniques that have proved their utility in the solution to many problems, such as induction, divide and conquer, dynamic programming, greedy approach, backtracking, randomized algorithms and approximation algorithms. This course will also gives an introduction to the field of computational complexity.