• The worst-case analysis is related to the worst-case complexity. Many algorithms with bad worst-case performance have good average-case performance...
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  • In computational complexity theory, the average-case complexity of an algorithm is the amount of some computational resource (typically time) used by the...
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  • worst-case complexity is the maximum of the complexity over all inputs of size n, and the average-case complexity is the average of the complexity over...
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  • common types of complexity estimates are the average-case complexity and the almost-always complexity. To obtain the average-case complexity, given an input...
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  • following complexities: Best-case complexity: This is the complexity of solving the problem for the best input of size n {\displaystyle n} . Average-case complexity:...
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  • complexity of an algorithm should be contrasted with its average-case complexity, which is an average measure of the amount of resources the algorithm uses...
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    his work in randomness in computing, algorithmic complexity and intractability, average-case complexity, foundations of mathematics and computer science...
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  • Generic-case complexity is a subfield of computational complexity theory that studies the complexity of computational problems on "most inputs". Generic-case...
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    Less common, and usually specified explicitly, is the average-case complexity, which is the average of the time taken on inputs of a given size (this makes...
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    worst-case complexity. Average-case analysis was first introduced to overcome the limitations of worst-case analysis. However, the resulting average-case complexity...
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    unknown whether Shellsort can reach this asymptotic order of average-case complexity, which is optimal for comparison sorts. The lower bound was improved...
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  • JSTOR 2580891. R. Impagliazzo, "A personal view of average-case complexity", p. 134, 10th Annual Structure in Complexity Theory Conference (SCT'95), 1995. "Tentative...
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  • Yao's principle (category Computational complexity theory)
    be obtained by a deterministic algorithm on a random input (its average-case complexity), for a probability distribution on inputs chosen to be as hard...
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  • for time in order to obtain an average-case complexity of O(n) on random text, although it has O(nm) in the worst case, where the length of the pattern...
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    atypical behavior from the algorithm, such as a violation of its average case complexity, or even its correctness. For example, hash tables generally have...
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    methods for analyzing the computational complexity of algorithms, including the theory of average-case complexity. He introduced the theory of analytic...
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  • algorithm known for the worst case, but the average-case complexity can be shown to be about as hard as the worst case using random self-reducibility...
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  • applications, worst case complexity is not sufficient, and we need to guarantee cryptographic construction are hard based on average case complexity. A full rank...
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    having constant size). This allows O ( n ) {\displaystyle O(n)} average time complexity even without uniformly distributed input. The most common variant...
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    started to work on various aspects of computational complexity theory including average case complexity. He became one of the founders of the emerging field...
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  • complexity of the use cases for the system. To find the UUCW for a system, each of the use cases must be identified and classified as Simple, Average...
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  • values form a single pile and both phases run in O(n) time. The average-case complexity is still O(n log n): any uniformly random sequence of values will...
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  • hard worst-case or average-case complexity. Worst-case complexity measures the difficulty of solving pathological cases rather than typical cases of the underlying...
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  • Impagliazzo, Russell (1995), "A personal view of average-case complexity", Proc. Tenth Annual Structure in Complexity Theory Conference (SCT'95), pp. 134–147,...
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    worst-case time complexity of O(log n). For a random heap, and for repeated insertions, the insertion operation has an average-case complexity of O(1)...
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  • also developed one-pass Find algorithms that retain the same worst-case complexity but are more efficient in practice. These are called path splitting...
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  • its average-case complexity (with the assumption that all input permutations are equally likely) or in its expected time analysis of worst-case inputs...
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  • performed in the average case by randomized bogosort is asymptotically equivalent to (e − 1)n!, and the expected number of swaps in the average case equals (n...
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    This reduces the average complexity from O ( n log ⁡ n ) {\displaystyle O(n\log n)} to O ( n ) {\displaystyle O(n)} , with a worst case of O ( n 2 ) {\displaystyle...
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    In ordinary language, an average is a single number or value that best represents a set of data. The type of average taken as most typically representative...
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