Duration
26h Th, 26h Pr
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
English language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
Introduction to the concept of effective procedure. Countable and uncountable sets. Finite automata and pushdown automata. Formal grammars and their relation to automata. Turing machines and the Church-Turing thesis. Theory of recursive functions. Problems unsolvable by an effective procedure. Introduction to NP-completeness and complexity theory.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
At the end of this course, the student will have a good knowledge of the theory pertaining to the limits of computer systems and will understand their meaning.
This course contributes to the learning outcomes I.1, I.2, I.3, II.1, III.1, III.2 of the MSc in data science and engineering.
This course contributes to the learning outcomes I.1, I.2, II.1, III.1, III.2 of the MSc in computer science and engineering.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Knowledge of programming
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
1st quadrimester - Lectures, problem sessions.
The lectures and problem sessions are given in English. The reference book is written in French, but similar textbooks written in English are available.
The problem sessions are aimed at gaining familiarity with the concepts introduced in the lectures.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Additional information:
Face-to-face.
Recommended or required readings
Recommended reference covering precisely the material taught in the course:
P. Wolper, Introduction à la calculabilité (3ième édition), Dunod, 2006.
Reference in English:
Michael Sipser, Introduction to the Theory of Computation, CENGAGE Learning Custom Publishing, 2012
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam ( open-ended questions )
Additional information:
Written exam including both theory and exercise questions (no oral exam).
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
All documents are available through the repository:
https://dox.uliege.be/index.php/s/GScGPUZj6Qc79EW
This repository contains all slides, all annotated slides, the exercises, the previous exams.
Contacts
Quentin Louveaux
q.louveaux@uliege.be
04/366 27 89