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ALGORITHMICA
2005
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Biased Skip Lists
We design a variation of skip lists that performs well for generally biased access sequences. Given n items, each with a positive weight wi, 1 i n, the time to access item i is O...
Amitabha Bagchi, Adam L. Buchsbaum, Michael T. Goo...
SODA
2008
ACM
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Dynamic optimality for skip lists and B-trees
Sleator and Tarjan [39] conjectured that splay trees are dynamically optimal binary search trees (BST). In this context, we study the skip list data structure introduced by Pugh [...
Prosenjit Bose, Karim Douïeb, Stefan Langerma...
WADS
1989
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
Skip Lists: A Probabilistic Alternative to Balanced Trees
rees can be used for representing abstract data types such as dictionaries and ordered lists. They work well when the elements are inserted in a random order. Some sequences of ope...
William Pugh
WEA
2007
Springer
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14 years 5 months ago
On the Cost of Persistence and Authentication in Skip Lists
We present an extensive experimental study of authenticated data structures for dictionaries and maps implemented with skip lists. We consider realizations of these data structures...
Michael T. Goodrich, Charalampos Papamanthou, Robe...