Abstract. We consider random tries and random patricia trees constructed from n independent strings of symbols drawn from any distribution on any discrete space. We show that many ...
Let s be the ratio of the cost for purchasing skis over the cost for renting them. Then the famous result for the ski-rental problem shows that skiers should buy their skis after r...
A new priority queue structure, the queap, is introduced. The queap executes insertion in O(1) amortized time and extract-min in O(log(k+2)) amortized time if there are k items th...
An optimal prefetching and I/O scheduling algorithm L-OPT, for parallel I/O systems, using a read-once model of block references is presented. The algorithm uses knowledge of the n...
In an adversarial queueing network, the incoming traffic is decided by an adversary, who operates under a reasonable rate restriction. This model provides a valuable, complementar...