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Merging and splitting priority queues and deques in parallel
1992 (English)In: Theory of Computing and Systems: ISTCS '92, Israel Symposium Haifa, Israel, May 27-28, 1992 Proceedings, Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology/Springer Verlag, 1992, p. 1-11Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

We investigate the parallel complexity of merging priority queues and double-ended priority queues (priority deques, for short). The implicit data structures that implement the queues studied in this paper are the heap, the twin-heap, the min-max heap, and the deap. It is known that heaps can be merged sequentially in sublinear time whereas merging min-max heaps requires linear sequential time. In this paper, we design efficient O(log n)-time parallel algorithms to merge two priority queue or deque structures of the same type on n and k elements (n≥k), respectively, which achieves the optimal speed-up. More precisely, two heaps of sizes n and k can be merged in O(log n) time with log k processors. Moreover, a related problem of splitting a heap on n elements into two heaps of sizes k and n-k is solved in O(log n) parallel time with log n processors, which also achieves the optimal speed-up. For the merge operation on priority deques, we show that the problem of merging twin-heaps can be solved in the same complexity as that for heaps both sequential and in parallel. Algorithms for merging two min-max heaps or two deaps of sizes n and k are demonstrated, which achieves a parallel time of O(log n) with k/log n+log k processors. The study of parallel solution to the problem of merging deaps also provides us with the first serial deap merging algorithm of time complexity O(k+log n·log k). The parallel computation model used in this paper is the EREW PRAM (Exclusive-Read Exclusive-Write Parallel Random Access Machine).

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Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology/Springer Verlag, 1992. p. 1-11
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science, ISSN 0302-9743 ; 601
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URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-38711DOI: 10.1007/BFb0035161Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85029757298Local ID: d2f60280-a7fb-11dc-9534-000ea68e967bISBN: 978-3-540-55553-7 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-38711DiVA, id: diva2:1012212
Conference
Israel Symposium on the Theory of Computing and Systems, ISTCS '92 : 27/05/1992 - 28/05/1992
Note
Upprättat; 1992; 20071211 (ysko)Available from: 2016-10-03 Created: 2016-10-03 Last updated: 2022-11-08Bibliographically approved

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