@InProceedings{li_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2016.51, author = {Li, Qian and Sun, Xiaoming and Zhang, Jialin}, title = {{On the Optimality of Tape Merge of Two Lists with Similar Size}}, booktitle = {27th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2016)}, pages = {51:1--51:17}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-026-2}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2016}, volume = {64}, editor = {Hong, Seok-Hee}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2016.51}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-68219}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2016.51}, annote = {Keywords: comparison-based sorting, tape merge, optimal sort, adversary method} }