A General Lower Bound on the I/O-Complexity of Comparison-based Algorithms
A General Lower Bound on the I/O-Complexity of Comparison-based Algorithms
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基于比较的算法的 I/O 复杂度的一般下界
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1992
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Kirsten Larsen
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作者:
L. Arge;Mikael B. Knudsen;Kirsten Larsen
We show a general relationship between the number of comparisons and the number of I/O-operations needed to solve a given problem. This relationship enables one to show lower bounds on the number of I/O-operations needed to solve a problem whenever a lower bound on the number of comparisons is known. We use the result to show lower bounds on the I/O-complexity on a number of problems where known techniques only give trivial bounds. Among these are the problems of removing duplicates from a multiset, a problem of great importance in e.g. relational data-base systems, and the problem of determining the mode — the most frequently occurring element — of a multiset. We develop algorithms for these problems in order to show that the lower bounds are tight.