EBK DATA STRUCTURES AND ALGORITHMS IN C
EBK DATA STRUCTURES AND ALGORITHMS IN C
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ISBN: 9781285415017
Author: DROZDEK
Publisher: YUZU
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Chapter 3, Problem 22E
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Self-organizing list:

  • A self-organizing list, a kind of list which reorders its records depending on few heuristic self-organizing approaches to increase the average access time.
  • The main goal of this is to increase the efficiency of the linear search by moving the most often accessed records to the head of the list.
  • A self-organizing list attains a best case of constant time (nearly) for accessing records.

Techniques for rearranging nodes in the List:

  • While ordering the records in the self-organizing list, normally the access probabilities of the records aren’t well known before.
  • This issue led the researchers to develop several heuristics to estimate optimal behaviour.
  • Some basic approaches used for reordering the records in the self-organizing list are given below.
    • Move–to–front method (MFT)
    • Transpose method.
    • Count method.
    • Ordering method.

Move–to–front method (MFT):

  • After the required record is sited, keep that at the head of the list.

Transpose method:

  • After the required record is sited, interchange that with its precursor.

Count method:

  • Ordering the self-organizing list by number of times the records are being processed.

Ordering method:

  • Ordering the self-organizing list by using definite criteria for information under analysis.

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(b) Efficiency of the methods when the list is implemented as a singly linked list:

  • When the list is implemented as a singly linked list, a record node could be separated from the middle of the list; therefore, either two pointers are required when traversing the list, one pointer is used for the present node and the other pointer is used for the preceding node...

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(c) Efficiency of the methods when the list is implemented as a doubly linked list:

  • When the list is implemented as a doubly l...

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