Algorithms and Data Structures The Basic Toolbox.pdf

Algorithms and Data Structures

Kurt Mehlhorn • Peter Sanders

Algorithms and

Data Structures

The Basic Toolbox

Prof. Dr. Kurt Mehlhorn

Prof. Dr. Peter Sanders

Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik

Universität Karlsruhe

Saarbrücken

Germany

sanders@ira.uka.de

mehlhorn@mpi-inf.mpg.de

ISBN 978-3-540-77977-3

e-ISBN 978-3-540-77978-0

DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-77978-0

Library of Congress Control Number: 2008926816

ACM Computing Classiﬁcation (1998): F.2, E.1, E.2, G.2, B.2, D.1, I.2.8

2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

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