Relaxed heaps

Journal Article · Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 EST 1988 · Commun. ACM; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/50087.50096· OSTI ID:6526005

Driscoll, J R ^[1]; Gabow, H N; Shrairman, R ^[2]; Tarjan, R E ^[3]

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1. Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (US)
2. Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (US)
3. Computer Science Dept., Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ (US)

The relaxed heap is a priority queue data structure that achieves the same amortized time bounds as the Fibonacci heap - a sequence of m decrease key and n delete min operations takes time O(m + n log n). A variant of relaxed heaps achieves similar bounds in the worst case - O(1) time for decrease key and O(log n) for delete min. Relaxed heaps give a processor-efficient parallel implementation of Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm, and hence other algorithms in network optimization. A relaxed heap is a type of binomial queue that allows heap order to be violated.

• OSTI ID: 6526005
• Journal Information: Commun. ACM; (United States), Vol. 31:11
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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