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Priority queues with parallel access are an attractive data structure for applications like prioritized online scheduling, discrete event simulation, or branch-and-bound. However, a classical priority queue constitutes a severe bottleneck…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-06 Hamza Rihani , Peter Sanders , Roman Dementiev

Improving the structure and analysis in \cite{elm0}, we give a variation of the pairing heaps that has amortized zero cost per meld (compared to an $O(\log \log{n})$ in \cite{elm0}) and the same amortized bounds for all other operations.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-04-09 Amr Elmasry

For many data-processing applications, a comprehensive set of efficient operations for the management of priority values is required. Indexed priority queues are particularly promising to satisfy this requirement by design. In this work, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Christian Loeffeld

Priority queues with parallel access are an attractive data structure for applications like prioritized online scheduling, discrete event simulation, or greedy algorithms. However, a classical priority queue constitutes a severe bottleneck…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Marvin Williams , Peter Sanders , Roman Dementiev

Priority queues are data structures which store keys in an ordered fashion to allow efficient access to the minimal (maximal) key. Priority queues are essential for many applications, e.g., Dijkstra's single-source shortest path algorithm,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Martin Wimmer , Jakob Gruber , Jesper Larsson Träff , Philippas Tsigas

Priority queues are data structures that maintain a dynamic collection of elements and allow inserting new elements and removing the smallest element. The most widely known and used priority queue is likely the implicit binary heap, even…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Johannes Breitling , Ragnar Groot Koerkamp , Marvin Williams

We explore the problem of efficiently implementing shared data structures in an asynchronous computing environment. We start with a traditional FIFO queue, showing that full replication is possible with a delay of only a single round-trip…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Samuel Baldwin , Cole Hausman , Mohamed Bakr , Edward Talmage

We introduce the lazy search tree data structure. The lazy search tree is a comparison-based data structure on the pointer machine that supports order-based operations such as rank, select, membership, predecessor, successor, minimum, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Bryce Sandlund , Sebastian Wild

Enumeration algorithms have been one of recent hot topics in theoretical computer science. Different from other problems, enumeration has many interesting aspects, such as the computation time can be shorter than the total output size, by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-16 Takeaki Uno

We study the selection problem, namely that of computing the $i$th order statistic of $n$ given elements. Here we offer a data structure called \emph{selectable sloppy heap} handling a dynamic version in which upon request: (i)~a new…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-11 Adrian Dumitrescu

A heap is a dynamic data structure that stores a set of labeled values under the following operations: pop returns the minimum value of the heap, Push($x_i$) pushes a new value $x_i$ onto the heap, and DecreaseKey($i$, $v$) decreases the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Ivor van der Hoog , John Iacono , Eva Rotenberg , Daniel Rutschmann

We consider the classical problem of representing a collection of priority queues under the operations \Findmin{}, \Insert{}, \Decrease{}, \Meld{}, \Delete{}, and \Deletemin{}. In the comparison-based model, if the first four operations are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-12-06 Amr Elmasry , Jyrki Katajainen

In the particular case we have insertions/deletions at the tail of a given set S of $n$ one-dimensional elements, we present a simpler and more concrete algorithm than that presented in [Anderson, 2007] achieving the same (but also…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Spyros Sioutas

This paper describes a new and purely functional implementation technique of binary heaps. A binary heap is a tree-based data structure that implements priority queue operations (insert, remove, minimum/maximum) and guarantees at worst…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-12-18 Vladimir Kostyukov

Priority queues are fundamental data structures with widespread applications in various domains, including graph algorithms and network simulations. Their performance critically impacts the overall efficiency of these algorithms.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Kiarash Parvizi

This paper presents an efficient algorithm for the approximation of the rank-one convex hull in the context of nonlinear solid mechanics. It is based on hierarchical rank-one sequences and simultaneously provides first and second derivative…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Maximilian Köhler , Timo Neumeier , Malte. A. Peter , Daniel Peterseim , Daniel Balzani

Priority queues are fundamental abstract data structures, often used to manage limited resources in parallel programming. Several proposed parallel priority queue implementations are based on skiplists, harnessing the potential for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-08-06 Irina Calciu , Hammurabi Mendes , Maurice Herlihy

Priority queues are container data structures essential to many high performance computing (HPC) applications. In this paper, we introduce multiresolution priority queues, a data structure that improves the performance of the standard heap…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-11 Jordi Ros-Giralt , Alan Commike , Peter Cullen , Jeff Lucovsky , Dilip Madathil , Richard Lethin

Priority queues are used in a wide range of applications, including prioritized online scheduling, discrete event simulation, and greedy algorithms. In parallel settings, classical priority queues often become a severe bottleneck, resulting…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Marvin Williams , Peter Sanders

This paper describes a heap construction that supports insert and delete operations in arbitrary (possibly illegitimate) states. After any sequence of at most O(m) heap operations, the heap state is guarantee to be legitimate, where m is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ted Herman , Toshimitsu Masuzawa