A unifying look at data structures

  • Authors:
  • Jean Vuillemin

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of Paris-South, Orsay, France

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1980

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Abstract

Examples of fruitful interaction between geometrical combinatorics and the design and analysis of algorithms are presented. A demonstration is given of the way in which a simple geometrical construction yields new and efficient algorithms for various searching and list manipulation problems.