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on
By
BHARAT BHUSHAN
Asst. Professor, Department of Computer Sc.
RLSY College, Ranchi
Buddha Science and Technical Institute, Ranchi
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Dynamic Programming in
Algorithm Design Technique

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Dynamic Programming
Dynamic Programming (DP) is an algorithmic
technique for solving an optimization problem by
breaking it down into simpler sub problems and
utilizing the fact that the optimal solution to the
overall problem depends upon the optimal solution
to its sub problems.
Dynamic programming approach is similar to divide
and conquer in breaking down the problem into
smaller and yet smaller possible sub-problems. But
unlike, divide and conquer, these sub-problems are
not solved independently.

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Dynamic Programming Approach Work
The following are the steps that the dynamic
programming follows:
 It breaks down the complex problem into simpler
sub problems.
 It finds the optimal solution to these sub-problems.
 It stores the results of sub problems.
 The process of storing the results of sub problems
is known as memorization.
 It reuses them so that same sub-problem is
calculated more than once.
 Finally, calculate the result of the complex
problem.

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Approaches of Dynamic Programming
There are two approaches to dynamic programming:
 Top-down approach
 Bottom-up approach
Top-down approach : The top-down method
solves the overall problem before you break it
down into sub problems. This process works to
solve larger problems by finding the solution to
sub problems recursively, caching each result.

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Approaches of Dynamic Programming
Bottom-up approach : The bottom-up approach is
also one of the techniques which can be used to
implement the dynamic programming. It uses the
tabulation technique to implement the dynamic
programming approach. It solves the same kind of
problems but it removes the recursion.
If we remove the recursion, there is no stack
overflow issue and no overhead of the recursive
functions. In this tabulation technique, we solve
the problems and store the results in a matrix.

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Examples
The following computer problems can be solved
using dynamic programming approach −
 Fibonacci number series
 Knapsack problem
 Tower of Hanoi
 All pair shortest path by Floyd-Warshall
 Shortest path by Dijkstra
 Project scheduling

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Advantages of Dynamic Programming
1. Dynamic programming can be used to obtain
local as well as the total optimal solution.
2. Dynamic programming algorithms are
generally compact code pieces as they are
based on recursive functions.
3. The linear and non-linear problem, both kind
of problems can be solved using dynamic
programming.
4. Dynamic programming algorithms are easy to
debug.

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Disadvantages of Dynamic Programming
1. Dynamic programming uses recursion, which
requires more memory in the call stack, and
leads to a stack overflow condition in the
runtime.
2. It takes memory to store the solutions of each
sub-problem. There is no guarantee that the
stored value will be used later in execution.

Bharat Bhushan, Assistant Professor, RLSY College, Ranchi
Algorithm Design