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Practical Introduction to Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis

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ISBN-10: 0130284467

ISBN-13: 9780130284464

Edition: 2nd 2001 (Revised)

Authors: Clifford A. Shaffer

List price: $119.60
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Appropriate for a sophomore/junior level second course in data structures and algorithms analysis (CS7) in departments of Computer Science. This book thoroughly covers key data structures at the undergraduate level. With a focus on how to assess costs and benefits, it teaches students how to create efficient data structures and algorithms and how to adopt to new design challenges. Students are taught how to assess applications needs to find data structures with matching capabilities.
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Book details

List price: $119.60
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 9/6/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 512
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.046

Preliminaries
Data Structures and Algorithms
A Philosophy of Data Structures
Abstract Data Types and Data Structures
Problems, Algorithms, and Programs
Mathematical Preliminaries
Sets and Relations
Miscellaneous Notation
Logarithms
Recursion
Summations and Recurrences
Mathematical Proof Techniques
Estimating
Algorithm Analysis
Introduction
Best, Worst, and Average Cases
A Faster Computer, or a Faster Algorithm?
Asymptotic Analysis
Calculating the Running Time of a Program
Analyzing Problems
Common Misunderstandings
Multiple Parameters
Space Bounds
Some Practical Considerations
Fundamental Data Structures
Lists, Stacks, and Queues
Lists
The Dictionary ADT
Stacks
Queues
Binary Trees
Definitions and Properties
Binary Tree Traversals
Binary Tree Node Implementations
Binary Search Trees
Heaps and Priority Queues
Huffman Coding Trees
Non-Binary Trees
General Tree Definitions and Terminology
The Parent Pointer Implementation
General Tree Implementations.K-ary Trees
Sequential Tree Implementations
Sorting and Searching
Internal Sorting
Sorting Terminology and Notation
Three Q(n^2) Sorting Algorithms
Shellsort
Quicksort
Mergesort
Heapsort
Binsort and Radix Sort
An Empirical Comparison of Sorting Algorithms
Lower Bounds for Sorting
File Processing and External Sorting
Primary versus Secondary Storage
Disk Drives
Buffers and Buffer Pools
The Programmer's View of Files
External Sorting
Simple Approaches to External Sorting
Replacement Selection
Multiway Merging
Searching
Searching Sorted Arrays
Self-Organizing Lists
Searching in Sets
Hashing
Indexing
Linear Indexing
ISAM
Tree Indexing
2-3 Trees
B-Trees
Applications and Advanced Topics
Graphs
Terminology and Representations
Graph Implementations
Graph Traversals
Shortest-Paths Problems
Minimum-Cost Spanning Trees
Lists and Arrays Revisited
Skip Lists
Multilists
Matrix Representations
Memory Management
Advanced Tree Structures
Tries
Balanced Trees
Spatial Data Structures
Analysis Techniques
Summation Techniques
Recurrence Relations
Amortized Analysis
Limits to Computation
Reductions
Hard Problems
Impossible Problems
Appendix
Utility Functions
Bibliography
Index