Weighted dynamic finger in binary search trees

DOI10.1137/1.9781611974331.CH49MaRDI QIDQ4575627zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John Iacono, Stefan Langerman

Publication date 16 July 2018

Published in Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.01785

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Data structures (68P05) Searching and sorting (68P10)

Abstract: It is shown that the online binary search tree data structure GreedyASS performs asymptotically as well on a sufficiently long sequence of searches as any static binary search tree where each search begins from the previous search (rather than the root). This bound is known to be equivalent to assigning each item $i$ in the search tree a positive weight $w_i$ and bounding the search cost of an item in the search sequence $s_1,ldots,s_m$ by ${\displaystyle }$Oleft(1+ log frac{displaystyle sum_{min(s_{i-1},s_i) leq x leq max(s_{i-1},s_i)}w_x}{displaystyle min(w_{s_i},w_{s_{i-1}})} ight)${\displaystyle }$ amortized. This result is the strongest finger-type bound to be proven for binary search trees. By setting the weights to be equal, one observes that our bound implies the dynamic finger bound. Compared to the previous proof of the dynamic finger bound for Splay trees, our result is significantly shorter, stronger, simpler, and has reasonable constants.

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