References for Part Four

The primary references for this section are the books by Knuth; Baeza-Yates and Gonnet; Mehlhorn; and Cormen, Leiserson, and Rivest. Many of the algorithms covered here are treated in great detail in these books, with mathematical analyses and suggestions for practical applications. Classical methods are covered thoroughly in Knuth; the more recent methods are described in the other books, with further references to the literature. These four sources, and the SedgewickFlajolet book, describe nearly all the “beyond the scope of this book” material referred to in this section.

The material in Chapter 13 comes from the 1996 paper by Roura and Martinez, the 1985 paper by Sleator and Tarjan, and the 1978 paper by Guibas and ...

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