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Munro, Ian

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2018.8
Faster Algorithms for some Optimization Problems on Collinear Points

Authors: Ahmad Biniaz, Prosenjit Bose, Paz Carmi, Anil Maheshwari, Ian Munro, and Michiel Smid

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 99, 34th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2018)

Abstract
We propose faster algorithms for the following three optimization problems on n collinear points, i.e., points in dimension one. The first two problems are known to be NP-hard in higher dimensions. 1) Maximizing total area of disjoint disks: In this problem the goal is to maximize the total area of nonoverlapping disks centered at the points. Acharyya, De, and Nandy (2017) presented an O(n^2)-time algorithm for this problem. We present an optimal Theta(n)-time algorithm. 2) Minimizing sum of the radii of client-server coverage: The n points are partitioned into two sets, namely clients and servers. The goal is to minimize the sum of the radii of disks centered at servers such that every client is in some disk, i.e., in the coverage range of some server. Lev-Tov and Peleg (2005) presented an O(n^3)-time algorithm for this problem. We present an O(n^2)-time algorithm, thereby improving the running time by a factor of Theta(n). 3) Minimizing total area of point-interval coverage: The n input points belong to an interval I. The goal is to find a set of disks of minimum total area, covering I, such that every disk contains at least one input point. We present an algorithm that solves this problem in O(n^2) time.
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Ahmad Biniaz, Prosenjit Bose, Paz Carmi, Anil Maheshwari, Ian Munro, and Michiel Smid. Faster Algorithms for some Optimization Problems on Collinear Points. In 34th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 99, pp. 8:1-8:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)

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@InProceedings{biniaz_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2018.8,
  author =	{Biniaz, Ahmad and Bose, Prosenjit and Carmi, Paz and Maheshwari, Anil and Munro, Ian and Smid, Michiel},
  title =	{{Faster Algorithms for some Optimization Problems on Collinear Points}},
  booktitle =	{34th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2018)},
  pages =	{8:1--8:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-066-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{99},
  editor =	{Speckmann, Bettina and T\'{o}th, Csaba D.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2018.8},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-87219},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2018.8},
  annote =	{Keywords: collinear points, range assignment}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/DagSemRep.267
Data Structures (Dagstuhl Seminar 00091)

Authors: Susanne Albers, Ian Munro, and Peter Widmayer

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Reports. Dagstuhl Seminar Reports, Volume 1 (2021)

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Susanne Albers, Ian Munro, and Peter Widmayer. Data Structures (Dagstuhl Seminar 00091). Dagstuhl Seminar Report 267, pp. 1-22, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2000)

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@TechReport{albers_et_al:DagSemRep.267,
  author =	{Albers, Susanne and Munro, Ian and Widmayer, Peter},
  title =	{{Data Structures (Dagstuhl Seminar 00091)}},
  pages =	{1--22},
  ISSN =	{1619-0203},
  year =	{2000},
  type = 	{Dagstuhl Seminar Report},
  number =	{267},
  institution =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemRep.267},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-151525},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemRep.267},
}
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DOI: 10.4230/DagSemRep.202
Data Structures (Dagstuhl Seminar 98091)

Authors: Ian Munro, Stefan Näher, and Peter Widmayer

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Reports. Dagstuhl Seminar Reports, Volume 1 (2021)

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Ian Munro, Stefan Näher, and Peter Widmayer. Data Structures (Dagstuhl Seminar 98091). Dagstuhl Seminar Report 202, pp. 1-25, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (1998)

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@TechReport{munro_et_al:DagSemRep.202,
  author =	{Munro, Ian and N\"{a}her, Stefan and Widmayer, Peter},
  title =	{{Data Structures (Dagstuhl Seminar 98091)}},
  pages =	{1--25},
  ISSN =	{1619-0203},
  year =	{1998},
  type = 	{Dagstuhl Seminar Report},
  number =	{202},
  institution =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemRep.202},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-150881},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemRep.202},
}
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DOI: 10.4230/DagSemRep.136
Data Structures (Dagstuhl Seminar 9609)

Authors: Stefan Näher, Hartmut Noltemeier, and Ian Munro

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Reports. Dagstuhl Seminar Reports, Volume 1 (2021)

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Stefan Näher, Hartmut Noltemeier, and Ian Munro. Data Structures (Dagstuhl Seminar 9609). Dagstuhl Seminar Report 136, pp. 1-21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (1996)

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@TechReport{naher_et_al:DagSemRep.136,
  author =	{N\"{a}her, Stefan and Noltemeier, Hartmut and Munro, Ian},
  title =	{{Data Structures (Dagstuhl Seminar 9609)}},
  pages =	{1--21},
  ISSN =	{1619-0203},
  year =	{1996},
  type = 	{Dagstuhl Seminar Report},
  number =	{136},
  institution =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemRep.136},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-150236},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemRep.136},
}

Munro, J. Ian

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.AofA.2024.2
Enumeration and Succinct Encoding of AVL Trees

Authors: Jeremy Chizewer, Stephen Melczer, J. Ian Munro, and Ava Pun

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 302, 35th International Conference on Probabilistic, Combinatorial and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA 2024)

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We use a novel decomposition to create succinct data structures - supporting a wide range of operations on static trees in constant time - for a variety of tree classes, extending results of Munro, Nicholson, Benkner, and Wild. Motivated by the class of AVL trees, we further derive asymptotics for the information-theoretic lower bound on the number of bits needed to store tree classes whose generating functions satisfy certain functional equations. In particular, we prove that AVL trees require approximately 0.938 bits per node to encode.
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Jeremy Chizewer, Stephen Melczer, J. Ian Munro, and Ava Pun. Enumeration and Succinct Encoding of AVL Trees. In 35th International Conference on Probabilistic, Combinatorial and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 302, pp. 2:1-2:12, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{chizewer_et_al:LIPIcs.AofA.2024.2,
  author =	{Chizewer, Jeremy and Melczer, Stephen and Munro, J. Ian and Pun, Ava},
  title =	{{Enumeration and Succinct Encoding of AVL Trees}},
  booktitle =	{35th International Conference on Probabilistic, Combinatorial and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA 2024)},
  pages =	{2:1--2:12},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-329-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{302},
  editor =	{Mailler, C\'{e}cile and Wild, Sebastian},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.AofA.2024.2},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-204376},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.AofA.2024.2},
  annote =	{Keywords: AVL trees, analytic combinatorics, succinct data structures, enumeration}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2023.18
Distance Queries over Dynamic Interval Graphs

Authors: Jingbang Chen, Meng He, J. Ian Munro, Richard Peng, Kaiyu Wu, and Daniel J. Zhang

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 283, 34th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2023)

Abstract
We design the first dynamic distance oracles for interval graphs, which are intersection graphs of a set of intervals on the real line, and for proper interval graphs, which are intersection graphs of a set of intervals in which no interval is properly contained in another. For proper interval graphs, we design a linear space data structure which supports distance queries (computing the distance between two query vertices) and vertex insertion or deletion in O(lg n) worst-case time, where n is the number of vertices currently in G. Under incremental (insertion only) or decremental (deletion only) settings, we design linear space data structures that support distance queries in O(lg n) worst-case time and vertex insertion or deletion in O(lg n) amortized time, where n is the maximum number of vertices in the graph. Under fully dynamic settings, we design a data structure that represents an interval graph G in O(n) words of space to support distance queries in O(n lg n/S(n)) worst-case time and vertex insertion or deletion in O(S(n)+lg n) worst-case time, where n is the number of vertices currently in G and S(n) is an arbitrary function that satisfies S(n) = Ω(1) and S(n) = O(n). This implies an O(n)-word solution with O(√{nlg n})-time support for both distance queries and updates. All four data structures can answer shortest path queries by reporting the vertices in the shortest path between two query vertices in O(lg n) worst-case time per vertex. We also study the hardness of supporting distance queries under updates over an intersection graph of 3D axis-aligned line segments, which generalizes our problem to 3D. Finally, we solve the problem of computing the diameter of a dynamic connected interval graph.
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Jingbang Chen, Meng He, J. Ian Munro, Richard Peng, Kaiyu Wu, and Daniel J. Zhang. Distance Queries over Dynamic Interval Graphs. In 34th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 283, pp. 18:1-18:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{chen_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2023.18,
  author =	{Chen, Jingbang and He, Meng and Munro, J. Ian and Peng, Richard and Wu, Kaiyu and Zhang, Daniel J.},
  title =	{{Distance Queries over Dynamic Interval Graphs}},
  booktitle =	{34th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2023)},
  pages =	{18:1--18:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-289-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{283},
  editor =	{Iwata, Satoru and Kakimura, Naonori},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2023.18},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-193207},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2023.18},
  annote =	{Keywords: interval graph, proper interval graph, intersection graph, geometric intersection graph, distance oracle, distance query, shortest path query, dynamic graph}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2022.59
Shortest Beer Path Queries in Interval Graphs

Authors: Rathish Das, Meng He, Eitan Kondratovsky, J. Ian Munro, Anurag Murty Naredla, and Kaiyu Wu

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 248, 33rd International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2022)

Abstract
Our interest is in paths between pairs of vertices that go through at least one of a subset of the vertices known as beer vertices. Such a path is called a beer path, and the beer distance between two vertices is the length of the shortest beer path. We show that we can represent unweighted interval graphs using 2n log n + O(n) + O(|B|log n) bits where |B| is the number of beer vertices. This data structure answers beer distance queries in O(log^ε n) time for any constant ε > 0 and shortest beer path queries in O(log^ε n + d) time, where d is the beer distance between the two nodes. We also show that proper interval graphs may be represented using 3n + o(n) bits to support beer distance queries in O(f(n)log n) time for any f(n) ∈ ω(1) and shortest beer path queries in O(d) time. All of these results also have time-space trade-offs. Lastly we show that the information theoretic lower bound for beer proper interval graphs is very close to the space of our structure, namely log(4+2√3)n - o(n) (or about 2.9 n) bits.
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Rathish Das, Meng He, Eitan Kondratovsky, J. Ian Munro, Anurag Murty Naredla, and Kaiyu Wu. Shortest Beer Path Queries in Interval Graphs. In 33rd International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 248, pp. 59:1-59:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{das_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2022.59,
  author =	{Das, Rathish and He, Meng and Kondratovsky, Eitan and Munro, J. Ian and Naredla, Anurag Murty and Wu, Kaiyu},
  title =	{{Shortest Beer Path Queries in Interval Graphs}},
  booktitle =	{33rd International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2022)},
  pages =	{59:1--59:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-258-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{248},
  editor =	{Bae, Sang Won and Park, Heejin},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2022.59},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-173442},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2022.59},
  annote =	{Keywords: Beer Path, Interval Graph}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2021.61
Dynamic Boolean Formula Evaluation

Authors: Rathish Das, Andrea Lincoln, Jayson Lynch, and J. Ian Munro

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 212, 32nd International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2021)

Abstract
We present a linear space data structure for Dynamic Evaluation of k-CNF Boolean Formulas which achieves O(m^{1-1/k}) query and variable update time where m is the number of clauses in the formula and clauses are of size at most a constant k. Our algorithm is additionally able to count the total number of satisfied clauses. We then show how this data structure can be parallelized in the PRAM model to achieve O(log m) span (i.e. parallel time) and still O(m^{1-1/k}) work. This parallel algorithm works in the stronger Binary Fork model. We then give a series of lower bounds on the problem including an average-case result showing the lower bounds hold even when the updates to the variables are chosen at random. Specifically, a reduction from k-Clique shows that dynamically counting the number of satisfied clauses takes time at least n^{(2ω-3)/6 √{2k} -1 -o(√k)}, where 2 ≤ ω < 2.38 is the matrix multiplication constant. We show the Combinatorial k-Clique Hypothesis implies a lower bound of m^{(1-k^{-1/2})(1-o(1))} which suggests our algorithm is close to optimal without involving Matrix Multiplication or new techniques. We next give an average-case reduction to k-clique showing the prior lower bounds hold even when the updates are chosen at random. We use our conditional lower bound to show any Binary Fork algorithm solving these problems requires at least Ω(log m) span, which is tight against our algorithm in this model. Finally, we give an unconditional linear space lower bound for Dynamic k-CNF Boolean Formula Evaluation.
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Rathish Das, Andrea Lincoln, Jayson Lynch, and J. Ian Munro. Dynamic Boolean Formula Evaluation. In 32nd International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 212, pp. 61:1-61:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)

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@InProceedings{das_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2021.61,
  author =	{Das, Rathish and Lincoln, Andrea and Lynch, Jayson and Munro, J. Ian},
  title =	{{Dynamic Boolean Formula Evaluation}},
  booktitle =	{32nd International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2021)},
  pages =	{61:1--61:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-214-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{212},
  editor =	{Ahn, Hee-Kap and Sadakane, Kunihiko},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2021.61},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-154945},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2021.61},
  annote =	{Keywords: Data Structures, SAT, Dynamic Algorithms, Boolean Formulas, Fine-grained Complexity, Parallel Algorithms}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2021.70
Hypersuccinct Trees - New Universal Tree Source Codes for Optimal Compressed Tree Data Structures and Range Minima

Authors: J. Ian Munro, Patrick K. Nicholson, Louisa Seelbach Benkner, and Sebastian Wild

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 204, 29th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2021)

Abstract
We present a new universal source code for distributions of unlabeled binary and ordinal trees that achieves optimal compression to within lower order terms for all tree sources covered by existing universal codes. At the same time, it supports answering many navigational queries on the compressed representation in constant time on the word-RAM; this is not known to be possible for any existing tree compression method. The resulting data structures, "hypersuccinct trees", hence combine the compression achieved by the best known universal codes with the operation support of the best succinct tree data structures. We apply hypersuccinct trees to obtain a universal compressed data structure for range-minimum queries. It has constant query time and the optimal worst-case space usage of 2n+o(n) bits, but the space drops to 1.736n + o(n) bits on average for random permutations of n elements, and 2lg binom{n}{r} + o(n) for arrays with r increasing runs, respectively. Both results are optimal; the former answers an open problem of Davoodi et al. (2014) and Golin et al. (2016). Compared to prior work on succinct data structures, we do not have to tailor our data structure to specific applications; hypersuccinct trees automatically adapt to the trees at hand. We show that they simultaneously achieve the optimal space usage to within lower order terms for a wide range of distributions over tree shapes, including: binary search trees (BSTs) generated by insertions in random order / Cartesian trees of random arrays, random fringe-balanced BSTs, binary trees with a given number of binary/unary/leaf nodes, random binary tries generated from memoryless sources, full binary trees, unary paths, as well as uniformly chosen weight-balanced BSTs, AVL trees, and left-leaning red-black trees.
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J. Ian Munro, Patrick K. Nicholson, Louisa Seelbach Benkner, and Sebastian Wild. Hypersuccinct Trees - New Universal Tree Source Codes for Optimal Compressed Tree Data Structures and Range Minima. In 29th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 204, pp. 70:1-70:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)

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@InProceedings{munro_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2021.70,
  author =	{Munro, J. Ian and Nicholson, Patrick K. and Benkner, Louisa Seelbach and Wild, Sebastian},
  title =	{{Hypersuccinct Trees - New Universal Tree Source Codes for Optimal Compressed Tree Data Structures and Range Minima}},
  booktitle =	{29th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2021)},
  pages =	{70:1--70:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-204-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{204},
  editor =	{Mutzel, Petra and Pagh, Rasmus and Herman, Grzegorz},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2021.70},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-146512},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2021.70},
  annote =	{Keywords: analysis of algorithms, universal source code, compressed trees, succinct data structure, succinct trees, tree covering, random binary search trees, range-minimum queries}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2020.25
Distance Oracles for Interval Graphs via Breadth-First Rank/Select in Succinct Trees

Authors: Meng He, J. Ian Munro, Yakov Nekrich, Sebastian Wild, and Kaiyu Wu

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 181, 31st International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2020)

Abstract
We present the first succinct distance oracles for (unweighted) interval graphs and related classes of graphs, using a novel succinct data structure for ordinal trees that supports the mapping between preorder (i.e., depth-first) ranks and level-order (breadth-first) ranks of nodes in constant time. Our distance oracles for interval graphs also support navigation queries - testing adjacency, computing node degrees, neighborhoods, and shortest paths - all in optimal time. Our technique also yields optimal distance oracles for proper interval graphs (unit-interval graphs) and circular-arc graphs. Our tree data structure supports all operations provided by different approaches in previous work, as well as mapping to and from level-order ranks and retrieving the last (first) internal node before (after) a given node in a level-order traversal, all in constant time.
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Meng He, J. Ian Munro, Yakov Nekrich, Sebastian Wild, and Kaiyu Wu. Distance Oracles for Interval Graphs via Breadth-First Rank/Select in Succinct Trees. In 31st International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 181, pp. 25:1-25:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)

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@InProceedings{he_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2020.25,
  author =	{He, Meng and Munro, J. Ian and Nekrich, Yakov and Wild, Sebastian and Wu, Kaiyu},
  title =	{{Distance Oracles for Interval Graphs via Breadth-First Rank/Select in Succinct Trees}},
  booktitle =	{31st International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2020)},
  pages =	{25:1--25:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-173-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{181},
  editor =	{Cao, Yixin and Cheng, Siu-Wing and Li, Minming},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2020.25},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-133693},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2020.25},
  annote =	{Keywords: succinct data structures, distance oracles, ordinal tree, level order, breadth-first order, interval graphs, proper interval graphs, succinct graph representation}
}
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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2020.14
Space Efficient Construction of Lyndon Arrays in Linear Time

Authors: Philip Bille, Jonas Ellert, Johannes Fischer, Inge Li Gørtz, Florian Kurpicz, J. Ian Munro, and Eva Rotenberg

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 168, 47th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2020)

Abstract
Given a string S of length n, its Lyndon array identifies for each suffix S[i..n] the next lexicographically smaller suffix S[j..n], i.e. the minimal index j > i with S[i..n] ≻ S[j..n]. Apart from its plain (n log₂ n)-bit array representation, the Lyndon array can also be encoded as a succinct parentheses sequence that requires only 2n bits of space. While linear time construction algorithms for both representations exist, it has previously been unknown if the same time bound can be achieved with less than Ω(n lg n) bits of additional working space. We show that, in fact, o(n) additional bits are sufficient to compute the succinct 2n-bit version of the Lyndon array in linear time. For the plain (n log₂ n)-bit version, we only need 𝒪(1) additional words to achieve linear time. Our space efficient construction algorithm makes the Lyndon array more accessible as a fundamental data structure in applications like full-text indexing.
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Philip Bille, Jonas Ellert, Johannes Fischer, Inge Li Gørtz, Florian Kurpicz, J. Ian Munro, and Eva Rotenberg. Space Efficient Construction of Lyndon Arrays in Linear Time. In 47th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 168, pp. 14:1-14:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)

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@InProceedings{bille_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2020.14,
  author =	{Bille, Philip and Ellert, Jonas and Fischer, Johannes and G{\o}rtz, Inge Li and Kurpicz, Florian and Munro, J. Ian and Rotenberg, Eva},
  title =	{{Space Efficient Construction of Lyndon Arrays in Linear Time}},
  booktitle =	{47th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2020)},
  pages =	{14:1--14:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-138-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{168},
  editor =	{Czumaj, Artur and Dawar, Anuj and Merelli, Emanuela},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2020.14},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-124211},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2020.14},
  annote =	{Keywords: String algorithms, string suffixes, succinct data structures, Lyndon word, Lyndon array, nearest smaller values, nearest smaller suffixes}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SWAT.2020.31
Space-Efficient Data Structures for Lattices

Authors: J. Ian Munro, Bryce Sandlund, and Corwin Sinnamon

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 162, 17th Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory (SWAT 2020)

Abstract
A lattice is a partially-ordered set in which every pair of elements has a unique meet (greatest lower bound) and join (least upper bound). We present new data structures for lattices that are simple, efficient, and nearly optimal in terms of space complexity. Our first data structure can answer partial order queries in constant time and find the meet or join of two elements in O(n^{3/4}) time, where n is the number of elements in the lattice. It occupies O(n^{3/2}log n) bits of space, which is only a Θ(log n) factor from the Θ(n^{3/2})-bit lower bound for storing lattices. The preprocessing time is O(n²). This structure admits a simple space-time tradeoff so that, for any c ∈ [1/2, 1], the data structure supports meet and join queries in O(n^{1-c/2}) time, occupies O(n^{1+c}log n) bits of space, and can be constructed in O(n² + n^{1+3c/2}) time. Our second data structure uses O(n^{3/2}log n) bits of space and supports meet and join in O(d (log n)/(log d)) time, where d is the maximum degree of any element in the transitive reduction graph of the lattice. This structure is much faster for lattices with low-degree elements. This paper also identifies an error in a long-standing solution to the problem of representing lattices. We discuss the issue with this previous work.
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J. Ian Munro, Bryce Sandlund, and Corwin Sinnamon. Space-Efficient Data Structures for Lattices. In 17th Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory (SWAT 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 162, pp. 31:1-31:22, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)

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@InProceedings{munro_et_al:LIPIcs.SWAT.2020.31,
  author =	{Munro, J. Ian and Sandlund, Bryce and Sinnamon, Corwin},
  title =	{{Space-Efficient Data Structures for Lattices}},
  booktitle =	{17th Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory (SWAT 2020)},
  pages =	{31:1--31:22},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-150-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{162},
  editor =	{Albers, Susanne},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SWAT.2020.31},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-122782},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SWAT.2020.31},
  annote =	{Keywords: Lattice, Partially-ordered set, Space-efficient data structure, Succinct data structure}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2020.24
Text Indexing and Searching in Sublinear Time

Authors: J. Ian Munro, Gonzalo Navarro, and Yakov Nekrich

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 161, 31st Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2020)

Abstract
We introduce the first index that can be built in o(n) time for a text of length n, and can also be queried in o(q) time for a pattern of length q. On an alphabet of size σ, our index uses O(n log σ) bits, is built in O(n log σ / √{log n}) deterministic time, and computes the number of occurrences of the pattern in time O(q/log_σ n + log n log_σ n). Each such occurrence can then be found in O(log n) time. Other trade-offs between the space usage and the cost of reporting occurrences are also possible.
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J. Ian Munro, Gonzalo Navarro, and Yakov Nekrich. Text Indexing and Searching in Sublinear Time. In 31st Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 161, pp. 24:1-24:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)

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@InProceedings{munro_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2020.24,
  author =	{Munro, J. Ian and Navarro, Gonzalo and Nekrich, Yakov},
  title =	{{Text Indexing and Searching in Sublinear Time}},
  booktitle =	{31st Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2020)},
  pages =	{24:1--24:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-149-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{161},
  editor =	{G{\o}rtz, Inge Li and Weimann, Oren},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2020.24},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-121497},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2020.24},
  annote =	{Keywords: data structures, string indexes}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2019.57
On Approximate Range Mode and Range Selection

Authors: Hicham El-Zein, Meng He, J. Ian Munro, Yakov Nekrich, and Bryce Sandlund

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 149, 30th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2019)

Abstract
For any epsilon in (0,1), a (1+epsilon)-approximate range mode query asks for the position of an element whose frequency in the query range is at most a factor (1+epsilon) smaller than the true mode. For this problem, we design a data structure occupying O(n/epsilon) bits of space to answer queries in O(lg(1/epsilon)) time. This is an encoding data structure which does not require access to the input sequence; the space cost of this structure is asymptotically optimal for constant epsilon as we also prove a matching lower bound. Furthermore, our solution improves the previous best result of Greve et al. (Cell Probe Lower Bounds and Approximations for Range Mode, ICALP'10) by saving the space cost by a factor of lg n while achieving the same query time. In dynamic settings, we design an O(n)-word data structure that answers queries in O(lg n /lg lg n) time and supports insertions and deletions in O(lg n) time, for any constant epsilon in (0,1); the bounds for non-constant epsilon = o(1) are also given in the paper. This is the first result on dynamic approximate range mode; it can also be used to obtain the first static data structure for approximate 3-sided range mode queries in two dimensions. Another problem we consider is approximate range selection. For any alpha in (0,1/2), an alpha-approximate range selection query asks for the position of an element whose rank in the query range is in [k - alpha s, k + alpha s], where k is a rank given by the query and s is the size of the query range. When alpha is a constant, we design an O(n)-bit encoding data structure that can answer queries in constant time and prove this space cost is asymptotically optimal. The previous best result by Krizanc et al. (Range Mode and Range Median Queries on Lists and Trees, Nordic Journal of Computing, 2005) uses O(n lg n) bits, or O(n) words, to achieve constant approximation for range median only. Thus we not only improve the space cost, but also provide support for any arbitrary k given at query time. We also analyse our solutions for non-constant alpha.
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Hicham El-Zein, Meng He, J. Ian Munro, Yakov Nekrich, and Bryce Sandlund. On Approximate Range Mode and Range Selection. In 30th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 149, pp. 57:1-57:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)

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@InProceedings{elzein_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2019.57,
  author =	{El-Zein, Hicham and He, Meng and Munro, J. Ian and Nekrich, Yakov and Sandlund, Bryce},
  title =	{{On Approximate Range Mode and Range Selection}},
  booktitle =	{30th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2019)},
  pages =	{57:1--57:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-130-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{149},
  editor =	{Lu, Pinyan and Zhang, Guochuan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2019.57},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-115531},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2019.57},
  annote =	{Keywords: data structures, approximate range query, range mode, range median}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2019.52
Dynamic Planar Point Location in External Memory

Authors: J. Ian Munro and Yakov Nekrich

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 129, 35th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2019)

Abstract
In this paper we describe a fully-dynamic data structure for the planar point location problem in the external memory model. Our data structure supports queries in O(log_B n(log log_B n)^3)) I/Os and updates in O(log_B n(log log_B n)^2)) amortized I/Os, where n is the number of segments in the subdivision and B is the block size. This is the first dynamic data structure with almost-optimal query cost. For comparison all previously known results for this problem require O(log_B^2 n) I/Os to answer queries. Our result almost matches the best known upper bound in the internal-memory model.
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J. Ian Munro and Yakov Nekrich. Dynamic Planar Point Location in External Memory. In 35th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 129, pp. 52:1-52:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)

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@InProceedings{munro_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2019.52,
  author =	{Munro, J. Ian and Nekrich, Yakov},
  title =	{{Dynamic Planar Point Location in External Memory}},
  booktitle =	{35th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2019)},
  pages =	{52:1--52:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-104-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{129},
  editor =	{Barequet, Gill and Wang, Yusu},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2019.52},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-104566},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2019.52},
  annote =	{Keywords: Data Structures, Dynamic Data Structures, Planar Point Location, External Memory}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2019.9
Categorical Range Reporting with Frequencies

Authors: Arnab Ganguly, J. Ian Munro, Yakov Nekrich, Rahul Shah, and Sharma V. Thankachan

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 127, 22nd International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2019)

Abstract
In this paper, we consider a variant of the color range reporting problem called color reporting with frequencies. Our goal is to pre-process a set of colored points into a data structure, so that given a query range Q, we can report all colors that appear in Q, along with their respective frequencies. In other words, for each reported color, we also output the number of times it occurs in Q. We describe an external-memory data structure that uses O(N(1+log^2D/log N)) words and answers one-dimensional queries in O(1 +K/B) I/Os, where N is the total number of points in the data structure, D is the total number of colors in the data structure, K is the number of reported colors, and B is the block size. Next we turn to an approximate version of this problem: report all colors sigma that appear in the query range; for every reported color, we provide a constant-factor approximation on its frequency. We consider color reporting with approximate frequencies in two dimensions. Our data structure uses O(N) space and answers two-dimensional queries in O(log_B N +log^*B + K/B) I/Os in the special case when the query range is bounded on two sides. As a corollary, we can also answer one-dimensional approximate queries within the same time and space bounds.
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Arnab Ganguly, J. Ian Munro, Yakov Nekrich, Rahul Shah, and Sharma V. Thankachan. Categorical Range Reporting with Frequencies. In 22nd International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 127, pp. 9:1-9:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)

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@InProceedings{ganguly_et_al:LIPIcs.ICDT.2019.9,
  author =	{Ganguly, Arnab and Munro, J. Ian and Nekrich, Yakov and Shah, Rahul and Thankachan, Sharma V.},
  title =	{{Categorical Range Reporting with Frequencies}},
  booktitle =	{22nd International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2019)},
  pages =	{9:1--9:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-101-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{127},
  editor =	{Barcelo, Pablo and Calautti, Marco},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2019.9},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-103115},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2019.9},
  annote =	{Keywords: Data Structures, Range Reporting, Range Counting, Categorical Range Reporting, Orthogonal Range Query}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2018.67
Succinct Data Structures for Chordal Graphs

Authors: J. Ian Munro and Kaiyu Wu

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 123, 29th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2018)

Abstract
We study the problem of approximate shortest path queries in chordal graphs and give a n log n + o(n log n) bit data structure to answer the approximate distance query to within an additive constant of 1 in O(1) time. We study the problem of succinctly storing a static chordal graph to answer adjacency, degree, neighbourhood and shortest path queries. Let G be a chordal graph with n vertices. We design a data structure using the information theoretic minimal n^2/4 + o(n^2) bits of space to support the queries: - whether two vertices u,v are adjacent in time f(n) for any f(n) in omega(1). - the degree of a vertex in O(1) time. - the vertices adjacent to u in (f(n))^2 time per neighbour - the length of the shortest path from u to v in O(nf(n)) time
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J. Ian Munro and Kaiyu Wu. Succinct Data Structures for Chordal Graphs. In 29th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 123, pp. 67:1-67:12, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)

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@InProceedings{munro_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2018.67,
  author =	{Munro, J. Ian and Wu, Kaiyu},
  title =	{{Succinct Data Structures for Chordal Graphs}},
  booktitle =	{29th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2018)},
  pages =	{67:1--67:12},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-094-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{123},
  editor =	{Hsu, Wen-Lian and Lee, Der-Tsai and Liao, Chung-Shou},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2018.67},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-100153},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2018.67},
  annote =	{Keywords: Succinct Data Structure, Chordal Graph}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2018.25
Improved Time and Space Bounds for Dynamic Range Mode

Authors: Hicham El-Zein, Meng He, J. Ian Munro, and Bryce Sandlund

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 112, 26th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2018)

Abstract
Given an array A of n elements, we wish to support queries for the most frequent and least frequent element in a subrange [l, r] of A. We also wish to support updates that change a particular element at index i or insert/ delete an element at index i. For the range mode problem, our data structure supports all operations in O(n^{2/3}) deterministic time using only O(n) space. This improves two results by Chan et al. [Timothy M. Chan et al., 2014]: a linear space data structure supporting update and query operations in O~(n^{3/4}) time and an O(n^{4/3}) space data structure supporting update and query operations in O~(n^{2/3}) time. For the range least frequent problem, we address two variations. In the first, we are allowed to answer with an element of A that may not appear in the query range, and in the second, the returned element must be present in the query range. For the first variation, we develop a data structure that supports queries in O~(n^{2/3}) time, updates in O(n^{2/3}) time, and occupies O(n) space. For the second variation, we develop a Monte Carlo data structure that supports queries in O(n^{2/3}) time, updates in O~(n^{2/3}) time, and occupies O~(n) space, but requires that updates are made independently of the results of previous queries. The Monte Carlo data structure is also capable of answering k-frequency queries; that is, the problem of finding an element of given frequency in the specified query range. Previously, no dynamic data structures were known for least frequent element or k-frequency queries.
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Hicham El-Zein, Meng He, J. Ian Munro, and Bryce Sandlund. Improved Time and Space Bounds for Dynamic Range Mode. In 26th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 112, pp. 25:1-25:13, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)

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@InProceedings{elzein_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2018.25,
  author =	{El-Zein, Hicham and He, Meng and Munro, J. Ian and Sandlund, Bryce},
  title =	{{Improved Time and Space Bounds for Dynamic Range Mode}},
  booktitle =	{26th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2018)},
  pages =	{25:1--25:13},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-081-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{112},
  editor =	{Azar, Yossi and Bast, Hannah and Herman, Grzegorz},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2018.25},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-94886},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2018.25},
  annote =	{Keywords: dynamic data structures, range query, range mode, range least frequent, range k-frequency}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2018.38
Dynamic Trees with Almost-Optimal Access Cost

Authors: Mordecai Golin, John Iacono, Stefan Langerman, J. Ian Munro, and Yakov Nekrich

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 112, 26th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2018)

Abstract
An optimal binary search tree for an access sequence on elements is a static tree that minimizes the total search cost. Constructing perfectly optimal binary search trees is expensive so the most efficient algorithms construct almost optimal search trees. There exists a long literature of constructing almost optimal search trees dynamically, i.e., when the access pattern is not known in advance. All of these trees, e.g., splay trees and treaps, provide a multiplicative approximation to the optimal search cost. In this paper we show how to maintain an almost optimal weighted binary search tree under access operations and insertions of new elements where the approximation is an additive constant. More technically, we maintain a tree in which the depth of the leaf holding an element e_i does not exceed min(log(W/w_i),log n)+O(1) where w_i is the number of times e_i was accessed and W is the total length of the access sequence. Our techniques can also be used to encode a sequence of m symbols with a dynamic alphabetic code in O(m) time so that the encoding length is bounded by m(H+O(1)), where H is the entropy of the sequence. This is the first efficient algorithm for adaptive alphabetic coding that runs in constant time per symbol.
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Mordecai Golin, John Iacono, Stefan Langerman, J. Ian Munro, and Yakov Nekrich. Dynamic Trees with Almost-Optimal Access Cost. In 26th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 112, pp. 38:1-38:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)

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@InProceedings{golin_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2018.38,
  author =	{Golin, Mordecai and Iacono, John and Langerman, Stefan and Munro, J. Ian and Nekrich, Yakov},
  title =	{{Dynamic Trees with Almost-Optimal Access Cost}},
  booktitle =	{26th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2018)},
  pages =	{38:1--38:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-081-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{112},
  editor =	{Azar, Yossi and Bast, Hannah and Herman, Grzegorz},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2018.38},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-95017},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2018.38},
  annote =	{Keywords: Data Structures, Binary Search Trees, Adaptive Alphabetic Coding}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2018.63
Nearly-Optimal Mergesorts: Fast, Practical Sorting Methods That Optimally Adapt to Existing Runs

Authors: J. Ian Munro and Sebastian Wild

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 112, 26th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2018)

Abstract
We present two stable mergesort variants, "peeksort" and "powersort", that exploit existing runs and find nearly-optimal merging orders with negligible overhead. Previous methods either require substantial effort for determining the merging order (Takaoka 2009; Barbay & Navarro 2013) or do not have an optimal worst-case guarantee (Peters 2002; Auger, Nicaud & Pivoteau 2015; Buss & Knop 2018) . We demonstrate that our methods are competitive in terms of running time with state-of-the-art implementations of stable sorting methods.
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J. Ian Munro and Sebastian Wild. Nearly-Optimal Mergesorts: Fast, Practical Sorting Methods That Optimally Adapt to Existing Runs. In 26th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 112, pp. 63:1-63:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)

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@InProceedings{munro_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2018.63,
  author =	{Munro, J. Ian and Wild, Sebastian},
  title =	{{Nearly-Optimal Mergesorts: Fast, Practical Sorting Methods That Optimally Adapt to Existing Runs}},
  booktitle =	{26th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2018)},
  pages =	{63:1--63:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-081-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{112},
  editor =	{Azar, Yossi and Bast, Hannah and Herman, Grzegorz},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2018.63},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-95265},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2018.63},
  annote =	{Keywords: adaptive sorting, nearly-optimal binary search trees, Timsort}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SWAT.2018.17
Succinct Dynamic One-Dimensional Point Reporting

Authors: Hicham El-Zein, J. Ian Munro, and Yakov Nekrich

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 101, 16th Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory (SWAT 2018)

Abstract
In this paper we present a succinct data structure for the dynamic one-dimensional range reporting problem. Given an interval [a,b] for some a,b in [m], the range reporting query on an integer set S subseteq [m] asks for all points in S cap [a,b]. We describe a data structure that answers reporting queries in optimal O(k+1) time, where k is the number of points in the answer, and supports updates in O(lg^epsilon m) expected time. Our data structure uses B(n,m) + o(B(n,m)) bits where B(n,m) is the minimum number of bits required to represent a set of size n from a universe of m elements. This is the first dynamic data structure for this problem that uses succinct space and achieves optimal query time.
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Hicham El-Zein, J. Ian Munro, and Yakov Nekrich. Succinct Dynamic One-Dimensional Point Reporting. In 16th Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory (SWAT 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 101, pp. 17:1-17:11, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)

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@InProceedings{elzein_et_al:LIPIcs.SWAT.2018.17,
  author =	{El-Zein, Hicham and Munro, J. Ian and Nekrich, Yakov},
  title =	{{Succinct Dynamic One-Dimensional Point Reporting}},
  booktitle =	{16th Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory (SWAT 2018)},
  pages =	{17:1--17:11},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-068-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{101},
  editor =	{Eppstein, David},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SWAT.2018.17},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-88438},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SWAT.2018.17},
  annote =	{Keywords: Succinct Data Structures, Range Searching, Computational Geometry}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2017.30
Succinct Color Searching in One Dimension

Authors: Hicham El-Zein, J. Ian Munro, and Yakov Nekrich

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 92, 28th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2017)

Abstract
In this paper we study succinct data structures for one-dimensional color reporting and color counting problems. We are given a set of n points with integer coordinates in the range [1,m] and every point is assigned a color from the set {1,...\sigma}. A color reporting query asks for the list of distinct colors that occur in a query interval [a,b] and a color counting query asks for the number of distinct colors in [a,b]. We describe a succinct data structure that answers approximate color counting queries in O(1) time and uses \mathcal{B}(n,m) + O(n) + o(\mathcal{B}(n,m)) bits, where \mathcal{B}(n,m) is the minimum number of bits required to represent an arbitrary set of size n from a universe of m elements. Thus we show, somewhat counterintuitively, that it is not necessary to store colors of points in order to answer approximate color counting queries. In the special case when points are in the rank space (i.e., when n=m), our data structure needs only O(n) bits. Also, we show that \Omega(n) bits are necessary in that case. Then we turn to succinct data structures for color reporting. We describe a data structure that uses \mathcal{B}(n,m) + nH_d(S) + o(\mathcal{B}(n,m)) + o(n\lg\sigma) bits and answers queries in O(k+1) time, where k is the number of colors in the answer, and nH_d(S) (d=\log_\sigma n) is the d-th order empirical entropy of the color sequence. Finally, we consider succinct color reporting under restricted updates. Our dynamic data structure uses nH_d(S)+o(n\lg\sigma) bits and supports queries in O(k+1) time.
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Hicham El-Zein, J. Ian Munro, and Yakov Nekrich. Succinct Color Searching in One Dimension. In 28th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 92, pp. 30:1-30:11, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017)

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@InProceedings{elzein_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2017.30,
  author =	{El-Zein, Hicham and Munro, J. Ian and Nekrich, Yakov},
  title =	{{Succinct Color Searching in One Dimension}},
  booktitle =	{28th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2017)},
  pages =	{30:1--30:11},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-054-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2017},
  volume =	{92},
  editor =	{Okamoto, Yoshio and Tokuyama, Takeshi},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2017.30},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-82096},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2017.30},
  annote =	{Keywords: Succinct Data Structures, Range Searching, Computational Geometry}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2017.57
Fast Compressed Self-Indexes with Deterministic Linear-Time Construction

Authors: J. Ian Munro, Gonzalo Navarro, and Yakov Nekrich

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 92, 28th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2017)

Abstract
We introduce a compressed suffix array representation that, on a text T of length n over an alphabet of size \sigma, can be built in O(n) deterministic time, within O(n\log\sigma) bits of working space, and counts the number of occurrences of any pattern P in T in time O(|P| + \log\log_w \sigma) on a RAM machine of w=\Omega(\log n)-bit words. This new index outperforms all the other compressed indexes that can be built in linear deterministic time, and some others. The only faster indexes can be built in linear time only in expectation, or require \Theta(n\log n) bits.
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J. Ian Munro, Gonzalo Navarro, and Yakov Nekrich. Fast Compressed Self-Indexes with Deterministic Linear-Time Construction. In 28th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 92, pp. 57:1-57:12, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017)

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@InProceedings{munro_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2017.57,
  author =	{Munro, J. Ian and Navarro, Gonzalo and Nekrich, Yakov},
  title =	{{Fast Compressed Self-Indexes with Deterministic Linear-Time Construction}},
  booktitle =	{28th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2017)},
  pages =	{57:1--57:12},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-054-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2017},
  volume =	{92},
  editor =	{Okamoto, Yoshio and Tokuyama, Takeshi},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2017.57},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-82328},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2017.57},
  annote =	{Keywords: Succinct data structures, Self-indexes, Suffix arrays, Deterministic construction}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2016.29
Raising Permutations to Powers in Place

Authors: Hicham El-Zein, J. Ian Munro, and Matthew Robertson

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 64, 27th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2016)

Abstract
Given a permutation of n elements, stored as an array, we address the problem of replacing the permutation by its kth power. We aim to perform this operation quickly using o(n) bits of extra storage. To this end, we first present an algorithm for inverting permutations that uses O(lg^2 n) additional bits and runs in O(n lg n) worst case time. This result is then generalized to the situation in which the permutation is to be replaced by its kth power. An algorithm whose worst case running time is O(n lg n) and uses O(lg^2 n + min{k lg n, n^{3/4 + epsilon}}) additional bits is presented.
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Hicham El-Zein, J. Ian Munro, and Matthew Robertson. Raising Permutations to Powers in Place. In 27th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 64, pp. 29:1-29:12, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)

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@InProceedings{elzein_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2016.29,
  author =	{El-Zein, Hicham and Munro, J. Ian and Robertson, Matthew},
  title =	{{Raising Permutations to Powers in Place}},
  booktitle =	{27th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2016)},
  pages =	{29:1--29:12},
  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.2016.29},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-67992},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2016.29},
  annote =	{Keywords: Algorithms, Combinatorics, Inplace, Permutations, Powers}
}
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