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A skew heap (or self-adjusting heap) is a heap data structure implemented as a binary tree. Skew heaps are advantageous because of their ability to merge more quickly than binary heaps. In contrast with binary heaps, there are no structural constraints, so there is no guarantee that the height of the tree is logarithmic. Only two conditions must be satisfied: * The general heap order must be enforced * Every operation (add, remove_min, merge) on two skew heaps must be done using a special ''skew heap merge''. A skew heap is a self-adjusting form of a leftist heap which attempts to maintain balance by unconditionally swapping all nodes in the merge path when merging two heaps. (The merge operation is also used when adding and removing values.) With no structural constraints, it may seem that a skew heap would be horribly inefficient. However, amortized complexity analysis can be used to demonstrate that all operations on a skew heap can be done in O(log n).〔http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~andy/courses/4101/lecture-notes/LN5.pdf〕 == Definition == Skew heaps may be described with the following recursive definition: *A heap with only one element is a skew heap. *The result of ''skew merging'' two skew heaps and is also a skew heap. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Skew heap」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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