computer science, best, worst, and average cases of a given algorithm express what the resource usage is at least, at most and on average, respectively....

will perform about half as many comparisons as selection sort on average. In the worst case for insertion sort (when the input array is reverse-sorted), insertion...

assessments, a worst-case scenario is essentially a type of bounding estimate". In computer science, the best, worst, and average case of a given algorithm...

primary motivations for studying average-case complexity. First, although some problems may be intractable in the worst-case, the inputs which elicit this...

complexity, and decision tree complexity. The complexity of an algorithm is often expressed using big O notation. The best, worst and average case complexity...

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size may cause the algorithm to have different behavior, so best, worst and average case descriptions might all be of practical interest. When not otherwise...

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computer science (specifically computational complexity theory), the worst-case complexity measures the resources (e.g. running time, memory) that an...

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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that, on average, quicksort performs only about 39% worse than in its best case. In this sense, it is closer to the best case than the worst case. A comparison...

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constant factor (both in average-case and worst-case), at any finite length. The algorithm was published in Blum et al. (1973), and thus is sometimes called...

list has been searched. A linear search runs in linear time in the worst case, and makes at most n comparisons, where n is the length of the list. If...

algorithm that is a hybrid of quickselect and median of medians which has fast average performance and optimal worst-case performance. Introselect is related...

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the worst film ever made, and Charlie Jane Anders of Gawker Media's io9 described it as "possibly the worst movie in history." Rotten Tomatoes placed Maniac...

iteration, increasing the number of iterations required in the average and worst case. This is the case for other search algorithms based on comparisons, as while...

Kenneth E. Iverson who coined its current name. Bubble sort has a worst-case and average complexity of O ( n 2 ) {\displaystyle O(n^{2})} , where n {\displaystyle...

the conditions of worst and average case and in the sense of a minimax value of a zero-sum game in game theory. With four holes and six colors, there...

(including RSA, discrete log, and some lattice problems) can be based on worst-case assumptions via worst-case-to-average-case reductions. A desired characteristic...

Best–worst scaling (BWS) techniques involve choice modelling (or discrete choice experiment – "DCE") and were invented by Jordan Louviere in 1987 while...

The worst-case execution time (WCET) of a computational task is the maximum length of time the task could take to execute on a specific hardware platform...

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random, and repeating the process until the deck is sorted. In a worst-case scenario with this version, the random source is of low quality and happens...

the worst case, merge sort uses approximately 39% fewer comparisons than quicksort does in its average case, and in terms of moves, merge sort's worst case...

in the worst case. For instance, this case occurs for N equal to a power of two when elements greater and smaller than the median occupy odd and even positions...

queries based on user input). ... It has no bad cases (O(N log N) is worst case; N−1 compares is best). Auger, Nicolas; Jugé, Vincent; Nicaud, Cyril;...