The spring of 2016 Qualifying Exam Announcement

Institute of Information Systems and Applications, NTHU

The spring of 2016 Qualifying Exam Announcement

 

一、    Registration Dates

報名開始日期 (Registration date):105年 2月 15 日 (Monday)

報名截止日期 (Deadline date):105 年 2 月 19 日 (Friday)

Registration Dates: February 15 - 19, 2016

 

二、考試日期(Exam Dates)

考試日期:105年3月3日(Monday) 及3月4日 (Friday)

Exam Dates: March 3 - 4, 2016

 

三、博士班資格考 Reading List(本清單僅供參考,命題範圍得超越之)

This list is for informational purposes only, the range beyond the scope.

 

  作業系統 (Operating Systems):

A. Silberschatz, J. Peterson and P. Galvin Operating System Concepts, 7th Edition Chapters 1-13

或亞洲版 (Wiley Asia Student Edition) A. Silberschatz, J. Peterson and P. Galvin Operating System Principles, 7th Edition Chapters 1-13

 

計算機結構 (Computer Architecture): 

       Computer Organization & Design: The Hardware/Software Interface David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessy

 

計算方法(Algorithm):

1.       [1] R.C.T. Lee, R.C. Chang, S.S. Tseng and Y.T. Tsai

Introduction to the Design and Analysis of Algorithms:

A Strategic Approach, McGraw Hill

Chapter 3: The greedy method

Chapter 4: The divide-and-conquer strategy

Chapter 8: The Theory of NP-completeness

 

2.         T. H. Cormen, C. E. Leiserson, R.L. Rivest and C. Stein

Introduction to Algorithms, MIT Press, 2nd Edition

Chapter 3: Growth of functions

Chapter 4: Recurrences

Chapters 6-9: Sorting and order statistics

Chapter 15: Dynamic programming

Chapters 22-26: Graph algorithms

Section 28.2: Strassen’s algorithm for matrix multiplication

Section 32.4: The Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm

Chapter 35: Approximation algorithms

NOTE: If your text book is the 1st Edition, the corresponding chapters are: Chapters 2, 3, 4, 7-10, 16, 23-27, 31.2, 34.4, 37.

 

資料結構 (Data Structure):

        Fundamentals of Data Structures in C,
        Ellis Horowit

 

機率論 (Probability theory):


                  [1] R.V. Hogg and E.A. Tanis, “Probability and Statistical Inference”, 7e, 2006 (Chapters 1 ~ 5)    

[2] R.E. Walpole, R.H. Myers, S.L. Myers, and K. Ye, “Probability & Statistics for Engineers and Scientists”, 8th edition, 2007 (Chapters 1~8)

[3] S. Ghahramani, Fundamentals of Probability with Stochastic Processes,3rd edition, Prentice Hall, 2005 (Chapters 1~11)