An overview of computational complexity

  • Authors:
  • Stephen A. Cook

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, Ont., Canada

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1983

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Abstract

An historical overview of computational complexity is presented. Emphasis is on the fundamental issues of defining the intrinsic computational complexity of a problem and proving upper and lower bounds on the complexity of problems. Probabilistic and parallel computation are discussed.