Soft kinetic data structures

  • Authors:
  • Artur Czumaj;Christian Sohler

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer and Information Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ;Heinz Nixdorf Institute and Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, University of Paderborn, D-33095 Paderborn, Germany

  • Venue:
  • SODA '01 Proceedings of the twelfth annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

We introduce the framework of soft kinetic data structures (SKDS). A soft kinetic data structure is an approximate data structure that can be used to answer queries on a set of moving objects with unpredictable motion. We analyze the quality of a soft kinetic data structure by giving a competitive analysis with respect to the dynamics of the system.We illustrate our approach by presenting soft kinetic data structures for maintaining classical data structures: sorted arrays, balanced search trees, heaps, and range trees. We also describe soft kinetic data structures for maintaining the Euclidean minimum spanning trees.