A Counting Approach to Lower Bounds for Selection Problems

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A Counting Approach to Lower Bounds for Selection Problems

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Journal of the ACM (JACM) archive
Volume 26 , Issue 2 (April 1979) table of contents

Pages: 227 - 238

Year of Publication: 1979

ISSN:0004-5411

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Frank Fussenegger	G4250, Martin Marietta Data Systems, P O Box 179, Denver, CO
Harold N. Gabow	Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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	David G. Kirkpatrick, A Unified Lower Bound for Selection and Set Partitioning Problems, Journal of the ACM (JACM), v.28 n.1, p.150-165, Jan. 1981
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	S W Bent , J W John, Finding the median requires 2n comparisons, Proceedings of the seventeenth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing, p.213-216, May 06-08, 1985, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
	Greg N. Frederickson , Donald B. Johnson, Generalized selection and ranking (Preliminary Version), Proceedings of the twelfth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing, p.420-428, April 28-30, 1980, Los Angeles, California, United States
	Dorit Dor , Uri Zwick, Selecting the median, Proceedings of the sixth annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete algorithms, p.28-37, January 22-24, 1995, San Francisco, California, United States