Studying at the University of Verona

Here you can find information on the organisational aspects of the Programme, lecture timetables, learning activities and useful contact details for your time at the University, from enrolment to graduation.

The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.

CURRICULUM TIPO:

2° Year   It will be activated in the A.Y. 2025/2026

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
Final exam
24
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It will be activated in the A.Y. 2025/2026
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
Final exam
24
E
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Modules Credits TAF SSD
Between the years: 1°- 2°
Between the years: 1°- 2°
Further activities
3
F
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Between the years: 1°- 2°
English B2
3
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Teaching code

4S008896

Credits

12

Coordinator

Romeo Rizzi

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

ING-INF/05 - INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS

Courses Single

Authorized

The teaching is organized as follows:

Teoria

Credits

10

Period

Semester 2

Laboratorio

Credits

2

Period

Semester 2

Academic staff

Romeo Rizzi

Learning objectives

The overall targets of the course is to expose some aspects of the deep and important dialectic exchange between the search for algorithmic solutions and the study of the complexity of problems. Algorithms are the backbone and the substance of information technologies, but at the same time their study goes beyond the "mere" computer science and is pervasive to all the disciplines that are problem-bearers. The design of an algorithm starts from the study of the structure of the problem to be solved and it usually represents the highest achievement of this process. The study of algorithms requires and offers methodologies and techniques of problem solving, logical and mathematical skills. The course therefore aims to provide students with fundamental skills and methodologies for the analysis of problems and the design of the algorithms for solving them. Particular emphasis is given to the efficiency of the algorithms themselves, and the theory of computational complexity plays a profound methodological role in the analysis of problems. With reference to the overall didactic aims of the Master program, the course leads students to deepen and expand the three-year training in the field of analysis and evaluation of problems, algorithms, and computational models, providing a wealth of advanced tools to address non-trivial problems in different IT fields. The students will acquire logical-mathematical skills, techniques, experience and methodologies useful in the analysis of algorithmic problems, from detecting their structure and analyzing their computational complexity to designing efficient algorithms, and then planning and conducting their implementation. Besides that, The course provides the foundations of computational complexity theory, focussing on: the theory of NP-completeness; approximation algorithms and basic approaches for the analysis of the approximation guarantee of algorithms for hard problems; and parameterized approaches to hard problems. The student will apply the main algorithmic techniques: recursion, divide and conquer, dynamic programming, some data structures, invariants and monovariants. The student will develop sensitivity about which problems can be solved efficiently and with which techniques, acquiring also dialectical tools to place the complexity of an algorithmic problem and identify promising approaches for the same, looking at the problem to grasp its structure. She will learn to produce, discuss, evaluate, and validate conjectures, and also independently tackle the complete path from the analysis of the problem, to the design of a resolver algorithm, to the coding and experimentation of the same, even in research contexts either in the private sector or at research institutions. Based on the basic notions acquired of computational complexity, the students will be able to employ reductions, standard techniques in complexity theory, to analyze the structural properties of computational problems and identify possible alternative approaches (approximation, parameterization) in the absence of (provably) efficient solutions After attending the course the students will be able to: classify intractable computational problems; understand and verify a formal proof; read and understand a scientific article where a new algorithm is presented together with the analysis of its computational complexity.

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