Fat heaps without regular counters
Authors:Amr Elmasry and Jyrki Katajainen
Published in:Discrete Mathematics, Algorithms and Applications 5,2 (2013), Article 1360006, 21 pp.
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DOI:10.1142/S1793830913600069
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Abstract:We introduce a variant of fat heaps that does not rely on regular counters, and still achieves the optimal worst-case bounds: O(1) for find-min, insert and decrease, and O(log n) for delete and delete-min. Compared to the original, our variant is simpler to explain, more efficient, and easier to implement. Experimental results suggest that our implementation is superior to structures, like run-relaxed heaps, that achieve the same worst-case bounds, and competitive to structures, like Fibonacci heaps, that achieve the same bounds in the amortized sense.
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BibLATEX:
@article{EK2013J,
  author = {Amr Elmasry and Jyrki Katajainen},
  title = {Fat heaps without regular counters},
  journaltitle = {Discrete Mathematics, Algorithms and Applications},
  volume = {5},
  number = {2},
  year = {2013},
  articleno = {1360006},
  pagetotal = {21},
}
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