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NP-Completeness [196]

Hamilton Cycle, Traveling Salesman, Longest Path

Clique, Vertex Cover, Degree Constrained Spanning Tree, etc.

Can be converted (reduced) to each other in polynomial time.

Only known solution is to ``try every possibility'': very slow

Each possibility can be tested in polynomial time.

Solvable with concurrent/parallel execution of each possibility.

Non-determininstic polynomial time.

Any NP problem can be converted to one in the ``NP-complete'' set.



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Ted Billard 2001-10-25