Analysis of Sorting Algorithms by Kolmogorov Complexity (A Survey)
Abstract
Recently, many results on the computational complexity of sorting algorithms were obtained using Kolmogorov complexity (the incompressibility method). Especially, the usually hard average-case analysis is ammenable to this method. Here we survey such results about Bubblesort, Heapsort, Shellsort, Dobosiewicz-sort, Shakersort, and sorting with stacks and queues in sequential or parallel mode. Especially in the case of Shellsort the uses of Kolmogorov complexity surprisingly easily resolved problems that had stayed open for a long time despite strenuous attacks.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- May 2009
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.0905.4452
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0905.4452
- Bibcode:
- 2009arXiv0905.4452V
- Keywords:
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- Computer Science - Data Structures and Algorithms;
- Computer Science - Computational Complexity
- E-Print:
- 18 Pages, 2 figures, LaTeX