The 1.375 approximation algorithm for sorting by transpositions can run in O(n log n) time

  • Authors:
  • Jesun S. Firoz;Masud Hasan;Ashik Z. Khan;M. Sohel Rahman

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, BUET, Dhaka, Bangladesh;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, BUET, Dhaka, Bangladesh;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, BUET, Dhaka, Bangladesh;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, BUET, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  • Venue:
  • WALCOM'10 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Algorithms and Computation
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We improve the running time from O(n2) to O(nlogn) of the existing best known 1.375−approximation algorithm for sorting by transpositions with the help of the permutation tree data structure.