Hollow heaps

Thomas Dueholm, Haim Kaplan*, Robert E. Tarjan, Uri Zwick

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Abstract

We introduce the hollow heap, a very simple data structure with the same amortized efficiency as the classical Fibonacci heap. All heap operations except delete and delete-min take O(1) time, worst case as well as amortized; delete and delete-min take O(log n) amortized time. Hollow heaps are by far the simplest structure to achieve this. Hollow heaps combine two novel ideas: the use of lazy deletion and re-insertion to do decrease-key operations, and the use of a dag (directed acyclic graph) instead of a tree or set of trees to represent a heap. Lazy deletion produces hollow nodes (nodes without items), giving the data structure its name.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAutomata, Languages, and Programming - 42nd International Colloquium, ICALP 2015, Proceedings
EditorsMagnus M. Halldorsson, Naoki Kobayashi, Bettina Speckmann, Kazuo Iwama
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages689-700
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783662476710
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015
Event42nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, ICALP 2015 - Kyoto, Japan
Duration: 6 Jul 201510 Jul 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9134
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference42nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, ICALP 2015
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityKyoto
Period6/07/1510/07/15

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