Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Abstract: Two in-place variants of the classical mergeso... analysed in detail. The first, straightforward variant p... log 2 N + O(N ) comparisons and 3N log 2 N + O(N ) moves... elements. The second, more advanced variant requires at ... O(N ) compa

External memory algorithms and data structures: dealing ...
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Volume 33 , Issue 2 (June 2001) table of contents
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FastSort: a distributed single-input single-output exter...
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Performance comparison of distributive and mergesort as ...
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Volume 10 , Issue 3 (October 1989) table of contents
Pages: 187 - 200
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Optimal disk I/O with parallel block transfer
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Greed Sort: An Optimal External Sorting Algorithm for Mu...
Mark H. Nodine and Jeffrey Scott Vitter
March 1991
Abstract:
We present an optimal deterministic algorithm for extern ...

External mergesort is normally implemented so that each ... contiguously on disk and blocks of data are read exactly... are needed during merging. We investigate two ideas for ... performance of external mergesort: interleaved layout an... strategy. I

We provide tight upper and lower bounds, up to a constan... number of inputs and outputs (I/OS) between internal mem... storage required for five sorting-related problems: sort... Fourier transform (FFT), permutation networks, permuting... transpositi

Sorting is a significant activity for which better metho... sought. In many computing scenarios, sorting must be don... majority of data items remaining on an auxiliary storage... paper introduces a new data structure, the *M-ary tree, ... external so

The memory model assumed for this discussion is a paged ...
The heapsort algorithms seen so far are not very well su ...
NOTE: Be aware that the words 'page access' does not nec ...
One may wonder if the d-heaps described in chapter 5 can ...
The drawbac

Heapsort is an internal sorting method which sorts an ar... place in O(n log n) time. Heapsort is generally consider... external random-access sorting. By replacing key compari... operations on pages, it is shown how to obtain an in-pla... which requi

M. L�ng, K. Sattler, K. Schmidt, E. Schallehn:
Autonomous Tuning with Soft Indexes
ICDE Workshop on Self-Managing Database Systerms (SMDB07 ...

A versatile variant of Heapsort, adapted for external di... presented. On a single processor RAM with internal memor... Θ(m + kbw) words, it sorts a file of n records of ... stored in m physical blocks, each consisting of b record... using O(m l

Selecting k smallest or largest elements
Another fundamental selection problem is that of selecti ...

We show that, in order to achieve efficient maintenance ... binary search tree, no shape restriction other than a lo... is required. The obtained class of trees, general balanc... maintained at a logarithmic amortized cost with no balan... stored in t

Abstract: Most texts describing data structures give imp... implementations. These are either difficult or tedious t... functional (non sideeffecting) form. This technical repo... implementation of sets in the functional subset of Stand... implementat

AVL tree
(data structure)
Definition: A balanced binary search tree where the heig ...

AVL tree
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AVL Trees
An AVL tree is another balanced binary search tree. Name ...