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In the first place, a novel, yet straightforward in-place integer value-sorting algorithm is presented. It sorts in linear time using constant amount of additional memory for storing counters and indices beside the input array. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-07-11 A. Emre Cetin

This paper introduces a novel and efficient partitioning technique for quicksort, specifically designed for real-world data with duplicate elements (50-year-old problem). The method is referred to as "equal quicksort" or "eqsort". Based on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Parviz Afereidoon

We study the impact of merging routines in merge-based sorting algorithms. More precisely, we focus on the galloping routine that TimSort uses to merge monotonic sub-arrays, hereafter called runs, and on the impact on the number of element…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Elahe Ghasemi , Vincent Jugé , Ghazal Khalighinejad , Helia Yazdanyar

Previous parallel sorting algorithms do not scale to the largest available machines, since they either have prohibitive communication volume or prohibitive critical path length. We describe algorithms that are a viable compromise and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-02-26 Michael Axtmann , Timo Bingmann , Peter Sanders , Christian Schulz

We present an in-place algorithm for the partition problem that has linear work and polylogarithmic span. The algorithm uses only exclusive read/write shared variables, and can be implemented using parallel-for-loops without any additional…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-10 William Kuszmaul , Alek Westover

We give optimal sorting algorithms in the evolving data framework, where an algorithm's input data is changing while the algorithm is executing. In this framework, instead of producing a final output, an algorithm attempts to maintain an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Juan Jose Besa , William E. Devanny , David Eppstein , Michael T. Goodrich , Timothy Johnson

Sorting is a foundational primitive in modern data processing, influencing the execution speed of high-performance data pipelines. However, the algorithmic landscape is currently bifurcated by a pervasive "Stability Tax": practitioners must…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Hriday Jain , Ketan Sabale , Aditya Shastri , Hiren Kumar Thakkar , Ashutosh Londhe

In this paper we are proposing a new sorting algorithm, List Sort algorithm, is based on the dynamic memory allocation. In this research study we have also shown the comparison of various efficient sorting techniques with List sort. Due the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-10-30 Adarsh Kumar Verma , Prashant Kumar

We present a stable mergesort variant, Multiway Powersort, that exploits existing runs and finds nearly-optimal merging orders for k-way merges with negligible overhead. This builds on Powersort (Munro & Wild, ESA2018), which has recently…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-18 William Cawley Gelling , Markus E. Nebel , Benjamin Smith , Sebastian Wild

Many Pareto-based multi-objective evolutionary algorithms require to rank the solutions of the population in each iteration according to the dominance principle, what can become a costly operation particularly in the case of dealing with…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Javier Moreno , Daniel Rodriguez , Antonio Nebro , Jose A. Lozano

Sorting is the one of the fundamental tasks of modern data management systems. With Disk I/O being the most-accused performance bottleneck and more computation-intensive workloads, it has come to our attention that in heterogeneous…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Yuanjing Shi , Zhaoxing Li

There has been surprisingly little work on algorithms for sorting strings on distributed-memory parallel machines. We develop efficient algorithms for this problem based on the multi-way merging principle. These algorithms inspect only…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Timo Bingmann , Peter Sanders , Matthias Schimek

This paper introduces persiansort, new stable sorting algorithm inspired by Persian rug. Persiansort does not have the weaknesses of mergesort under scenarios involving nearly sorted and partially sorted data, also utilizing less auxiliary…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Parviz Afereidoon

We engineer algorithms for sorting huge data sets on massively parallel machines. The algorithms are based on the multiway merging paradigm. We first outline an algorithm whose I/O requirement is close to a lower bound. Thus, in contrast to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-10-15 Mirko Rahn , Peter Sanders , Johannes Singler

We introduce and analyse a new, extremely simple, randomised sorting algorithm: - choose a pair of indices $\{i, j\}$ according to some distribution $q$; - sort the elements in positions $i$ and $j$ of the array in ascending order. Choosing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Sam Olesker-Taylor

This paper introduces a new comparison base stable sorting algorithm, named RS sort. RS Sort involves only the comparison of pair of elements in an array which ultimately sorts the array and does not involve the comparison of each element…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-23 Harsh Ranjan , Sumit Agarwal , Niraj Kumar Singh

There is a high demand of space-efficient algorithms in built-in or embedded softwares. In this paper, we consider the problem of designing space-efficient algorithms for computing the maximum area empty rectangle (MER) among a set of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-04-18 Minati De , Subhas C. Nandy

In this paper, a sorting technique is presented that takes as input a data set whose primary key domain is known to the sorting algorithm, and works with an time efficiency of O(n+k), where k is the primary key domain. It is shown that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Udayan Khuarana

The quest for efficient sorting is ongoing, and we will explore a graph-based stable sorting strategy, in particular employing comparison graphs. We use the topological sort to map the comparison graph to a linear domain, and we can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Balaram Behera

Sorting is one of the most fundamental problems in the field of computer science. With the rapid development of manycore processors, it shows great importance to design efficient parallel sort algorithm on manycore architecture. This paper…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Tianyi Yu , Wei Li