This book presents a unified treatment of many different kinds of planning algorithms. The subject lies at the crossroads between robotics, control theory, artificial intelligence, algorithms, and computer graphics. The particular subjects covered include motion planning, discrete planning, planning under uncertainty, sensor-based planning, visibility, decision-theoretic planning, game theory, information spaces, reinforcement learning, nonlinear systems, trajectory planning, nonholonomic planning, and kinodynamic planning. Planning algorithms are impacting technical disciplines and industries around the world, including robotics, computer-aided design, manufacturing, computer graphics, aerospace applications, drug design, and protein folding. This coherent and comprehensive book unifies material from several sources, including robotics, control theory, artificial intelligence, and algorithms. The treatment is centered on robot motion planning, but integrates material on planning in discrete spaces. A major part of the book is devoted to planning under uncertainty, including decision theory, Markov decision processes, and information spaces, which are the ‘configuration spaces’ of all sensor-based planning problems. The last part of the book delves into planning under differential constraints that arise when automating the motions of virtually any mechanical system. This text and reference is intended for students, engineers, and researchers in robotics, artificial intelligence, and control theory as well as computer graphics, algorithms, and computational biology.

"This is an eminently readable book which an ordinary programmer, unskilled in mathematical analysis and wary of theoretical algorithms, ought to be able to pick up and get a lot out of.." - Steve Summit, author of C Programming FAQs Sedgewick has a real gift for explaining concepts in a way that makes them easy to understand. The use of real programs in page-size (or less) chunks that can be easily understood is a real plus. The figures, programs, and tables are a significant contribution to the learning experience of the reader; they make this book distinctive. - William A. Ward, University of South Alabama Robert Sedgewick has thoroughly rewritten and substantially expanded his popular work to provide current and comprehensive coverage of important algorithms and data structures. Many new algorithms are presented, and the explanations of each algorithm are much more detailed than in previous editions. A new text design and detailed, innovative figures, with accompanying commentary, greatly enhance the presentation. The third edition retains the successful blend of theory and practice that has made Sedgewick's work an invaluable resource for more than 250,000 programmers! This particular book, Parts 1-4, represents the essential first half of Sedgewick's complete work. It provides extensive coverage of fundamental data structures and algorithms for sorting, searching, and related applications. The algorithms and data structures are expressed in concise implementations in C, so that you can both appreciate their fundamental properties and test them on real applications. Of course, the substance of the book applies to programming in any language. Highlights * Expanded coverage of arrays, linked lists, strings, trees, and other basic data structures * Greater emphasis on abstract data types (ADTs) than in previous editions * Over 100 algorithms for sorting, selection, priority queue ADT implementations, and symbol table ADT (searching) implementations * New implementations of binomial queues, multiway radix sorting, Batcher's sorting networks, randomized BSTs, splay trees, skip lists, multiway tries, and much more * Increased quantitative information about the algorithms, including extensive empirical studies and basic analytic studies, giving you a basis for comparing them * Over 1000 new exercises to help you learn the properties of algorithms Whether you are a student learning the algorithms for the first time or a professional interested in having up-to-date reference material, you will find a wealth of useful information in this book.

《数据结构与算法分析:C语言描述》曾被评为20世纪顶尖的30部计算机著作之一，作者在数据结构和算法分析方面卓有建树，他的数据结构和算法分析的著作尤其畅销，并受到广泛好评，已被世界500余所大学选作教材。 在《数据结构与算法分析:C语言描述》中，作者精炼并强化了他对算法和数据结构方面创新的处理方法。通过C程序的实现，着重阐述了抽象数据类型的概念，并对算法的效率、性能和运行时间进行了分析。 《数据结构与算法分析:C语言描述》特色：着重讨论了算法设计技巧，包括贪婪算法、分治算法、动态规划、随机化算法以及回溯算法。系统介绍了当前流行的论题和新的数据结构，如斐波那契堆、斜堆、二项队列、跳跃表和伸展树。详细讨论了摊还分析，考查书中介绍的一些高级数据结构。增加了高级数据结构及其实现的内容，包括红黑树、自顶向下伸展树、treap树、k-d树、配对堆等。整合了堆排序平均情况分析的一些新结果。

本书是一部程序设计竞赛教程。书中首先讲述了算法的基本概念、各种排序与解题的方法及策略，然后论述了初等数论、计算几何学、搜索和图论的有关算法，最后讨论了动态规划。本书不仅从教学的角度详细讲解算法理论，而且从竞赛的角度对经典习题进行详细解析，培养学生灵活运用算法的能力。. 本书既可以作为大专院校计算机专业算法类课程的教材，亦可以作为大中学校计算机竞赛活动的培训教材，还可供计算机软硬件研发人员参考。

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