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Performance comparison of distributive and mergesort as ...
Source Journal of Systems and Software archive
Volume 10 , Issue 3 (October 1989) table of contents
Pages: 187 - 200
... Elsevier Science Inc. New York, NY, USA

Optimal disk I/O with parallel block transfer
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Source Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing archive
Proceedings of the twenty-second annual ACM symposium on ...
... ACM Press New York, NY, USA

Greed Sort: An Optimal External Sorting Algorithm for Mu...
Mark H. Nodine and Jeffrey Scott Vitter
March 1991
Abstract:
We present an optimal deterministic algorithm for extern ...

External mergesort is normally implemented so that each ... contiguously on disk and blocks of data are read exactly... are needed during merging. We investigate two ideas for ... performance of external mergesort: interleaved layout an... strategy. I

We provide tight upper and lower bounds, up to a constan... number of inputs and outputs (I/OS) between internal mem... storage required for five sorting-related problems: sort... Fourier transform (FFT), permutation networks, permuting... transpositi

Sorting is a significant activity for which better metho... sought. In many computing scenarios, sorting must be don... majority of data items remaining on an auxiliary storage... paper introduces a new data structure, the *M-ary tree, ... external so

The memory model assumed for this discussion is a paged ...
The heapsort algorithms seen so far are not very well su ...
NOTE: Be aware that the words 'page access' does not nec ...
One may wonder if the d-heaps described in chapter 5 can ...
The drawbac

Heapsort is an internal sorting method which sorts an ar... place in O(n log n) time. Heapsort is generally consider... external random-access sorting. By replacing key compari... operations on pages, it is shown how to obtain an in-pla... which requi

M. L�ng, K. Sattler, K. Schmidt, E. Schallehn:
Autonomous Tuning with Soft Indexes
ICDE Workshop on Self-Managing Database Systerms (SMDB07 ...

A versatile variant of Heapsort, adapted for external di... presented. On a single processor RAM with internal memor... Θ(m + kbw) words, it sorts a file of n records of ... stored in m physical blocks, each consisting of b record... using O(m l

OpenSearch
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Effect of z-index value to positioned elements
with help from Dave Hyatt 1
Through the entire tutorial, I will be using RP as short ...

* Test different versions of a page to see which wor...
* Discover which ad placement gives the best results
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* Learn which content leads to improved sales

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Literature Reviews
What this handout is about...
This handout will explain what a Literature Review i ...

Geert Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions
National cultures can be described according to the anal ...
If you follow the links below you will find a map of the ...
• Power Distance
... • Long-Term Orientation

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The Extensible Metadata Platform or XMP is a specific ty... markup language used in PDF, photography and photo editi... It was first introduced by Adobe Systems in April 2001 a...
XMP defines a metadata model that can be used with any d ...
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Science Toys
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Yoichiro Kawaguchi, a well-known computer graphics a ...
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Discourse - Connecting Ideas in Writing
The Kibbitzer pages below focus on students' problems wi ...