Table of Contents

• PART I. PRELIMINARIES
• 1. Introduction And Historical Review ?
• 2. Algorithms And Data
• 3. Programming Languages and Paradigms
• PART II. METHODS AND ANALYSIS
• 4. Algorithmic Methods
• 5. The Correctness of Algorithms 
• 6. The Efficiency of Algorithms
• PART III. LIMITATIONS AND ROBUSTNESS
• 7. Inefficiency and Intractability
• 8. Noncomputability and Undecidability !
• 9. Algorithmic Universality and Its Robustness
• PART IV. RELAXING THE RULES
• 10. Parallelism, Concurrency and Alternative Models
• 11. Probabilistic Algorithms 
• 12. Cryptography and Reliable Interaction
• PART V. THE BIGGER PICTURE
• 13. Software Engineering
• 14. Reactive Systems
• 15. Algorithmics And Intelligence 
• Postscript
• Selected Solutions
• Bibliographic Notes
• Index