Union-Find Data Structures and Algorithms - Definitive Reference for Developers and Engineers

Richard Johnson

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"Union-Find Data Structures and Algorithms""Union-Find Data Structures and Algorithms" delivers a comprehensive exploration of the mathematical foundations, core implementations, and advanced techniques underpinning one of computer science’s most essential data structures. Seamlessly blending rigorous theoretical exposition with practical engineering insights, the book opens with foundational concepts in set theory, graph connectivity, and complexity analysis—equipping readers with the intellectual tools necessary to grasp the delicacy and depth of union-find. Key chapters unpack classical and amortized complexity, the role of the inverse Ackermann function, and the subtleties of formal data type abstractions, ensuring that readers build a solid baseline before engaging with more advanced material.The volume proceeds to a detailed survey of fundamental and optimized union-find implementations, tracing the evolution from array-based and linked-list structures to forest representations and persistent variants. It devotes special attention to algorithmic heuristics—including union by size, union by rank, and sophisticated path compression techniques—offering empirical benchmarks and comparative analyses that underscore both theoretical and real-world performance. Advanced sections tackle lower bounds, optimality proofs, and the challenges of dynamic updates, deletion, and parallelization, drawing clear connections to contemporary needs in distributed systems and high-performance computing.A hallmark of this text is its devotion to bridging theory with application. Through in-depth case studies, readers discover union-find’s pivotal role in minimizing spanning trees, processing large-scale graphs, enabling image segmentation, powering distributed consensus, and facilitating efficient clustering in data analysis and machine learning. The book concludes with forward-looking discussions on research frontiers, from quantum algorithms to privacy-aware and fault-tolerant systems, making it an indispensable reference for researchers, engineers, and students seeking a nuanced, authoritative treatment of union-find data structures in both classical and emerging domains.

Verfügbar seit: 09.06.2025.

Drucklänge: 250 Seiten.

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