Introduction to Property Testing
Introduction to Property Testing by Oded Goldreich
English | November 1, 2017 | ISBN: 1107194059 | EPUB | 468 pages | 85.8 MB
English | November 1, 2017 | ISBN: 1107194059 | EPUB | 468 pages | 85.8 MB
Property testing is concerned with the design of super-fast algorithms for the structural analysis of large quantities of data. The aim is to unveil global features of the data, such as determining whether the data has a particular property or estimating global parameters. Remarkably, it is possible for decisions to be made by accessing only a small portion of the data. Property testing focuses on properties and parameters that go beyond simple statistics.
This book provides an extensive and authoritative introduction to property testing. It provides a wide range of algorithmic techniques for the design and analysis of tests for algebraic properties, properties of Boolean functions, graph properties, and properties of distributions.