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We revisit the problem of permuting an array of length $n$ according to a given permutation in place, that is, using only a small number of bits of extra storage. Fich, Munro and Poblete [FOCS 1990, SICOMP 1995] obtained an elegant…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Bartłomiej Dudek , Paweł Gawrychowski , Karol Pokorski

Sorting and hashing are two completely different concepts in computer science, and appear mutually exclusive to one another. Hashing is a search method using the data as a key to map to the location within memory, and is used for rapid…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 William F. Gilreath

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 give the first sorting algorithm with bounds in terms of higher-order entropies: let $S$ be a sequence of length $m$ containing $n$ distinct elements and let (H_\ell (S)) be the $\ell$th-order empirical entropy of $S$, with (n^{\ell + 1}…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Travis Gagie

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

This paper deals with simultaneously fast and in-place algorithms for formulae where the result has to be linearly accumulated: some output variables are also input variables, linked by a linear dependency. Fundamental examples include the…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Jean-Guillaume Dumas , Bruno Grenet

We investigate distributed memory parallel sorting algorithms that scale to the largest available machines and are robust with respect to input size and distribution of the input elements. The main outcome is that four sorting algorithms…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Michael Axtmann , Peter Sanders

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

Sorting is needed in many application domains. The data is read from memory and sent to a general purpose processor or application specific hardware for sorting. The sorted data is then written back to the memory. Reading/writing data…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Mohsen Riahi Alam , M. Hassan Najafi , Nima TaheriNejad

Traditional Insertion Sort runs in O(n^2) time because each insertion takes O(n) time. When people run Insertion Sort in the physical world, they leave gaps between items to accelerate insertions. Gaps help in computers as well. This paper…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Michael A. Bender , Martin Farach-Colton , Miguel Mosteiro

This paper discusses about a sorting algorithm which uses the concept of buckets where each bucket represents a certain number of digits. A two dimensional data structure is used where one dimension represents buckets i. e; number of digits…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-06-10 Ankit Chadha , Rishikesh Misal , Tanaya Mokashi , Aman Chadha

We empirically study sorting in the evolving data model. In this model, a sorting algorithm maintains an approximation to the sorted order of a list of data items while simultaneously, with each comparison made by the algorithm, an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Juan Jose Besa , William E. Devanny , David Eppstein , Michael Goodrich , Timothy Johnson

Sorting is a fundamental operation across numerous computational domains. Traditionally, this process involves transferring data from main memory to a processing unit for sorting, followed by writing the sorted data back to memory. This…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Narendra Singh Dhakad , Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma

Sorting a set of items is a task that can be useful by itself or as a building block for more complex operations. The more sophisticated and fast sorting algorithms become asymptotically, the less efficient they are for small sets of items…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Jasper Marianczuk

Emerging memory technologies have a significant gap between the cost, both in time and in energy, of writing to memory versus reading from memory. In this paper we present models and algorithms that account for this difference, with a focus…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Guy E. Blelloch , Jeremy T. Fineman , Phillip B. Gibbons , Yan Gu , Julian Shun

Sorting is one of the most used and well investigated algorithmic problem [1]. Traditional postulation supposes the sorting data archived, and the elementary operation as comparisons of two numbers. In a view of appearance of new processors…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-07-22 Hakob Aslanyan

In computer science, sorting algorithms are crucial for data processing and machine learning. Large datasets and high efficiency requirements provide challenges for comparison-based algorithms like Quicksort and Merge sort, which achieve…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Amin Amini

This article introduces an adaptive sorting algorithm that can relocate elements accurately by substituting their values into a function which we name it the guessing function. We focus on building this function which is the mapping…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Sheng Bao , De-Shun Zheng

The two most prominent solutions for the sorting problem are Quicksort and Mergesort. While Quicksort is very fast on average, Mergesort additionally gives worst-case guarantees, but needs extra space for a linear number of elements.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Stefan Edelkamp , Armin Weiß

Sorting is an essential operation in computer science with direct consequences on the performance of large scale data systems, real-time systems, and embedded computation. However, no sorting algorithm is optimal under all distributions of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Shrinivass Arunachalam Balasubramanian