TY - BOOK AU - Harel,David TI - Algorithmics : : the spirit of computing / SN - 0201504014 PY - 1992/// CY - Harlow PB - Addison-Wesley KW - ALGORITMOS N1 - CONTENIDO Part I. Preliminaries1 Chapter 1 Introduction and historical review or, What's it all about? 3 Chapter 2 Algorithms and data or, Getting it done 19 Chapter 3 Programming languages or, Getting it done by computer51 Part II. Methods and Analysis 77 Chapter 4 Algorithmic methods or, Getting it done methodically 79 Chapter 5 The correctness of algorithms or, Getting it done right 95 Chapter 6 The efficiency of algorithms or, Getting it done cheaply 127 Part III. Limitations and Robustness 159 Chapter 7 Inefficiency and intractability or, You can't always get it done cheaply 161 Chapter 8 Noncomputability and undecidability or, Sometimes you can't get it done at all! 195 Chapter 9 Algorithmic universality and its robustnes or, The.simplest machines that get it done 223 Part IV. Relaxing the Rules 263 Chapter 10 Parallelism and concurrency or, Getting it done by cooperating 265 Chapter 11 Probabilistic algorithms or, Getting it done by tossing coins 309 Chapter 12 Algorithmics and intelligence or, Are they better at it than us? 347 Postscript 367 Selected Solutions 369 Bibliographic notes 407 Index 463 ER -