Compact binary relation representations with rich functionality

  • Authors:
  • Jérémy Barbay;Francisco Claude;Gonzalo Navarro

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Chile, Chile;Escuela de Informática y Telecomunicaciones, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile;Department of Computer Science, University of Chile, Chile

  • Venue:
  • Information and Computation
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Binary relations are an important abstraction arising in many data representation problems. The data structures proposed so far to represent them support just a few basic operations required to fit one particular application. We identify many of those operations arising in applications and generalize them into a wide set of desirable queries for a binary relation representation. We also identify reductions among those operations. We then introduce several novel binary relation representations, some simple and some quite sophisticated, that not only are space-efficient but also efficiently support a large subset of the desired queries.