In computer science, a heap is a tree-based data structure that satisfies the heap property: In a max heap, for any given node C, if P is the parent node...
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A binary heap is a heap data structure that takes the form of a binary tree. Binary heaps are a common way of implementing priority queues.: 162–163 The...
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Bx-tree Heap Min-max heap Binary heap B-heap Weak heap Binomial heap Fibonacci heap AF-heap Leonardo heap 2–3 heap Soft heap Pairing heap Leftist heap Treap...
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computer science, a Fibonacci heap is a data structure for priority queue operations, consisting of a collection of heap-ordered trees. It has a better...
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science, a min-max heap is a complete binary tree data structure which combines the usefulness of both a min-heap and a max-heap, that is, it provides...
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The d-ary heap or d-heap is a priority queue data structure, a generalization of the binary heap in which the nodes have d children instead of 2. Thus...
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science, a binomial heap is a data structure that acts as a priority queue. It is an example of a mergeable heap (also called meldable heap), as it supports...
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In computer science, a soft heap is a variant on the simple heap data structure that has constant amortized time complexity for 5 types of operations...
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a data structure is a data organization and storage format that is usually chosen for efficient access to data. More precisely, a data structure is a...
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when the presortedness of the data is high. Heap sort is a sorting algorithm that utilizes binary heap data structure. The method treats an array as...
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Look up Heap, heap, or heaps in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Heap or HEAP may refer to: Heap (data structure), a data structure commonly used to implement...
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A pairing heap is a type of heap data structure with relatively simple implementation and excellent practical amortized performance, introduced by Michael...
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computer science, a weak heap is a data structure for priority queues, combining features of the binary heap and binomial heap. It can be stored in an...
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data type (ADT) abstract syntax tree (AST) (a,b)-tree accepting state Ackermann's function active data structure acyclic directed graph adaptive heap...
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algorithms such as the Fibonacci search technique and the Fibonacci heap data structure, and graphs called Fibonacci cubes used for interconnecting parallel...
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Priority queue (category Abstract data types)
queues. There are several specialized heap data structures that either supply additional operations or outperform heap-based implementations for specific...
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a skew binomial heap (or skew binomial queue) is a data structure for priority queue operations. It is a variant of the binomial heap that supports constant-time...
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queues are frequently implemented using heaps. A (max) heap is a tree-based data structure which satisfies the heap property: for any given node C, if P...
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A skew heap (or self-adjusting heap) is a heap data structure implemented as a binary tree. Skew heaps are advantageous because of their ability to merge...
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a 2–3 heap is a data structure that implements a priority queue. It is a variation on the heap, designed by Tadao Takaoka in 1999. The structure is similar...
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B-heap is a binary heap implemented to keep subtrees in a single page. This reduces the number of pages accessed by up to a factor of ten for big heaps...
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A Kinetic Heap is a kinetic data structure, obtained by the kinetization of a heap. It is designed to store elements (keys associated with priorities)...
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Double-ended priority queue (redirect from Double ended heaps (deaps))
priority queue (DEPQ) or double-ended heap or priority deque is a data structure similar to a priority queue or heap, but allows for efficient removal of...
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considered aligned or not. Data structures can be stored in memory on the stack with a static size known as bounded or on the heap with a dynamic size known...
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shadow heap is a mergeable heap data structure which supports efficient heap merging in the amortized sense. More specifically, shadow heaps make use...
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In computer science, a search data structure[citation needed] is any data structure that allows the efficient retrieval of specific items from a set of...
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Fibonacci heap is a priority queue data structure with low worst case time bounds. It matches the amortized time bounds of the Fibonacci heap in the worst...
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A heap overflow, heap overrun, or heap smashing is a type of buffer overflow that occurs in the heap data area. Heap overflows are exploitable in a different...
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maintain the heap property. Examples of mergeable heap data structures include: Binomial heap Fibonacci heap Leftist tree Pairing heap Skew heap A more complete...
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