Operations on sets of intervals - an exercise for data structures or algorithms

  • Authors:
  • B. P. Weems

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, P.O. Box 19015, Arlington, TX

  • Venue:
  • SIGCSE '89 Proceedings of the twentieth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

Ordered linked lists are introduced in data structures courses and are frequently encountered in the study of algorithms. Set operations (e.g. union, intersection) on sets of real intervals provide a non-trivial exercise in developing correct algorithms for manipulating lists.