EE 2204 – Data Structures and Algorithms N Radhakrishnan Assistant

EE 2204 - Data Structures and Algorithms N Radhakrishnan Assistant Professor Anna University, Chennai

Topics Introduction Definitions Classification of Data Structures Arrays and Linked Lists Abstract Data Types [ADT] The List ADT Array-based Implementation Linked List Implementation Cursor-based Implementation Doubly Linked Lists June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 2

Data Structure [Wikipedia] Data Structure is a particular way of storing and organizing data in a computer so that it can be used efficiently. Different kinds of data structures are suited to different kinds of applications. Storing and retrieving can be carried out on data stored in both main memory and in secondary memory. June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 3

Merriam-Webster's Definition Way in which data are stored for efficient search and retrieval. The simplest data structure is the onedimensional (linear) array. Data items stored non-consecutively in memory may be linked by pointers. Many algorithms have been developed for storing data efficiently June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 4

Algorithms [Wikipedia] An algorithm is a step-by-step procedure for calculations. An algorithm is an effective method expressed as a finite list of well-defined instructions for calculating a function. The transition from one state to the next is not necessarily deterministic; some algorithms incorporate random input. June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 5

Merriam-Webster's Definition Procedure that produces the answer to a question or the solution to a problem in a finite number of steps. An algorithm that produces a yes or no answer is called a decision procedure; one that leads to a solution is a computation procedure. Example: A mathematical formula and the instructions in a computer program June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 6

Data Structure Classification Primitive / Non-primitive Basic Data Structures available / Derived from Primitive Data Structures Homogeneous / Heterogeneous Elements are of the same type / Different types Static / Dynamic memory is allocated at the time of compilation / run-time Linear / Non-linear Maintain a Linear relationship between element June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 7

ADT - General Concept Problem solving with a computer means processing data To process data, we need to define the data type and the operation to be performed on the data The definition of the data type and the definition of the operation to be applied to the data is part of the idea behind an Abstract Data Type (ADT) June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 8

ADT - General Concept The user of an ADT needs only to know that a set of operations are available for the data type, but does not need to know how they are applied Several simple ADTs, such as integer, real, character, pointer and so on, have been implemented and are available for use in most languages June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 9

Data Types A data type is characterized by: A set of values A data representation, which is common to all these values, and A set of operations, which can be applied uniformly to all these values June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 10

Primitive Data Types Languages like ‘C’ provides the following primitive data types: boolean char, byte, int float, double Each primitive type has: A set of values A data representation A set of operations These are “set in stone”. June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 11

ADT Definition [Wikipedia] In computer science, an abstract data type (ADT) is a mathematical model for a certain class of data structures that have similar behavior. An abstract data type is defined indirectly, only by the operations that may be performed on it and by mathematical constraints on the effects (and possibly cost) of those operations. June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 12

ADT Definition [Wikipedia] An ADT may be implemented by specific data types or data structures, in many ways and in many programming languages; or described in a formal specification language. example, an abstract stack could be defined by three operations: push, that inserts some data item onto the structure, pop, that extracts an item from it, and peek, that allows data on top of the structure to be examined without removal. June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 13

Definition from techforum4you Abstract data types or ADTs are a mathematical specification of a set of data and the set of operations that can be performed on the data. They are abstract in the sense that the focus is on the definitions and the various operations with their arguments. The actual implementation is not defined, and does not affect the use of the ADT. June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 14

ADT in Simple Words Definition: Is a set of operation Mathematical abstraction No implementation detail Example: Lists, sets, graphs, stacks are examples of ADT along with their operations June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 15

Why ADT? Modularity divide program into small functions easy to debug and maintain easy to modify group work Reuse do some operations only once Easy to change the implementation transparent to the program June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 16

Implementing an ADT To implement an ADT, you need to choose: A data representation must be able to represent all necessary values of the ADT should be private An algorithm for each of the necessary operation: must be consistent with the chosen representation all auxiliary (helper) operations that are not in the contract should be private Remember: Once other people are using it It’s easy to add functionality June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 17

The List ADT The List is an Ordered sequence of data items called elements A1, A2, A3, ,AN is a list of size N size of an empty list is 0 Ai 1 succeeds Ai Ai-1 preceeds Ai Position of Ai is i First element is A1 called “head” Last element is AN called “tail” June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 18

Operations on Lists June 17, 2024 MakeEmpty PrintList Find FindKth Insert Delete Next Previous Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 19

List – An Example The elements of a list are 34, 12, 52, 16, 12 Find (52) - 3 Insert (20, 4) - 34, 12, 52, 20, 16, 12 Delete (52) - 34, 12, 20, 16, 12 FindKth (3) - 20 June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 20

List - Implementation Lists can be implemented using: Arrays Linked List Cursor [Linked List using Arrays] June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 21

Arrays Array is a static data structure that represents a collection of fixed number of homogeneous data items or A fixed-size indexed sequence of elements, all of the same type. The individual elements are typically stored in consecutive memory locations. The length of the array is determined when the array is created, and cannot be changed. June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 22

Arrays Any component of the array can be inspected or updated by using its index. This is an efficient operation O(1) constant time The array indices may be integers (C, Java) or other discrete data types (Pascal, Ada). The lower bound may be zero (C, Java), one (Fortran), or chosen by the programmer (Pascal, Ada) June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 23

Different Types of Arrays One-dimensional array: only one index is used Multi-dimensional array: array involving more than one index Static array: the compiler determines how memory will be allocated for the array Dynamic array: memory allocation takes place during execution June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 24

One Dimensional Static Array Syntax: ElementType arrayName [CAPACITY]; ElementType arrayName [CAPACITY] { initializer list }; Example in C : int int June 17, 2024 b [5]; b [5] {19, 68, 12, 45, 72}; Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 25

Array Output Function void display(int array[],int num values) { for (int I 0; i num values; i ) cout array[i] “ ”; } June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 26

List Implemented Using Array June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 27

Operations On Lists We’ll consider only few operations and not all operations on Lists Let us consider Insert There are two possibilities: Ordered List Unordered List June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 28

Insertion into an Ordered List June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 29

Insertion in Detail June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 30

Insertion June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 31

Deletion June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 32

Find / Search Searching is the process of looking for a specific element in an array For example, discovering whether a certain score is included in a list of scores. Searching, like sorting, is a common task in computer programming. There are many algorithms and data structures devoted to searching. The most common one is the linear search. June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 33

Linear Search The linear search approach compares the given value with each element in the array. The method continues to do so until the given value matches an element in the list or the list is exhausted without a match being found. If a match is made, the linear search returns the index of the element in the array that matches the key. If no match is found, the search returns -1. June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 34

Linear Search June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 35

Linear Search Function int LinearSearch (int a[], int n, int key) { int i; for(i 0; i n; i ) { if (a[i] key) return i; } return -1; } June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 36

Using the Function LinearSearch (a,n,item,loc) Here "a" is an array of the size n. This algorithm finds the location of the element "item" in the array "a". If search item is found, it sets loc to the index of the element; otherwise, it sets loc to -1 index linearsearch(array, num, key) June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 37

PrintList Operation int myArray [5] {19,68,12,45,72}; /* To print all the elements of the array for (int i 0;i 5;i ) { printf("%d", myArray[i]); } June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 38

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Implementing Deletion June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 40

Deletion - Another Method June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 41

Operations Running Times PrintList Find O(N) Insert Delete O(N) (on avarage half needs to be moved) FindKth Next Previous O(1) June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 42

Disadvantages of Using Arrays Need to define a size for array High overestimate (waste of space) insertion and deletion is very slow need to move elements of the list redundant memory space it is difficult to estimate the size of array June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 43

Linked List Series of nodes not adjacent in memory contain the element and a pointer to a node containing its succesor Avoids the linear cost of insertion and deletion! June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 44

Singly Linked List June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 45

Doubly Linked List June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 46

Singly Linked List June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 47

Singly-linked List - Addition Insertion into a singly-linked list has two special cases. It's insertion a new node before the head (to the very beginning of the list) and after the tail (to the very end of the list). In any other case, new node is inserted in the middle of the list and so, has a predecessor and successor in the list. June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 48

Empty list case When list is empty, which is indicated by (head NULL) condition, the insertion is quite simple. Algorithm sets both head and tail to point to the new node. June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 49

Add first In this case, new node is inserted right before the current head node. June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 50

Add First - Step 1 It can be done in two steps: Update the next link of the new node, to point to the current head node. June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 51

Add First - Step 2 Update head link to point to the new node. June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 52

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Add last In this case, new node is inserted right after the current tail node. It can be done in two steps: Update the next link of the current tail node, to point to the new node. Update tail link to point to the new node. June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 54

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Insert - General Case In general case, new node is always inserted between two nodes, which are already in the list. Head and tail links are not updated in this case. We need to know two nodes "Previous" and "Next", between which we want to insert the new node. This also can be done in two steps: Update link of the "previous" node, to point to the new node. Update link of the new node, to point to the "next" node. June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 56

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Singly-linked List - Deletion There are four cases, which can occur while removing the node. We have the same four situations, but the order of algorithm actions is opposite. Notice, that removal algorithm includes the disposal of the deleted node - unnecessary in languages with automatic garbage collection (Java). June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 58

List has only one node When list has only one node, that the head points to the same node as the tail, the removal is quite simple. Algorithm disposes the node, pointed by head (or tail) and sets both head and tail to NULL. June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 59

Remove First In this case, first node (current head node) is removed from the list. It can be done in two steps: Update head link to point to the node, next to the head. Dispose removed node. June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 60

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Remove Last In this case, last node (current tail node) is removed from the list. This operation is a bit more tricky, than removing the first node, because algorithm should find a node, which is previous to the tail first. It can be done in three steps: Update tail link to point to the node, before the tail. In order to find it, list should be traversed first, beginning from the head. Set next link of the new tail to NULL. Dispose removed node. June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 62

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Remove - General Case In general case, node to be removed is always located between two list nodes. Head and tail links are not updated in this case. We need to know two nodes "Previous" and "Next", of the node which we want to delete. Such a removal can be done in two steps: Update next link of the previous node, to point to the next node, relative to the removed node. Dispose removed node. June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 64

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Advantages of Using Linked Lists Need to know where the first node is the rest of the nodes can be accessed No need to move the elements in the list for insertion and deletion operations No memory waste June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 66

Cursor Implementation Problems with linked list implementation: Same language do not support pointers! Then how can you use linked lists ? new and free operations are slow Actually not constant time SOLUTION: Implement linked list on an array called CURSOR June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 67

Cursor Implementation - Diagram June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 68

Cursor Implementation If L 5, then L represents list (A, B, E) If M 3, then M represents list (C, D, F) June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 69

Arrays - Pros and Cons Pros Directly supported by C Provides random access Cons Size determined at compile time Inserting and deleting elements is time consuming June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 70

Linked Lists - Pros and Cons Pros Size determined during runtime Inserting and deleting elements is quick Cons No random access User must provide programming support June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 71

Application of Lists Lists can be used To store the records sequentially For creation of stacks and queues For polynomial handling To maintain the sequence of operations for do / undo in software To keep track of the history of web sites visited June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 72

Why Doubly Linked List ? given only the pointer location, we cannot access its predecessor in the list. Another task that is difficult to perform on a linear linked list is traversing the list in reverse. Doubly linked list A linked list in which each node is linked to both its successor and its predecessor In such a case, where we need to access the node that precedes a given node, a doubly linked list is useful. June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 73

Doubly Linked List In a doubly linked list, the nodes are linked in both directions. Each node of a doubly linked list contains three parts: Info: the data stored in the node Next: the pointer to the following node Back: the pointer to the preceding node June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 74

Operations on Doubly Linked Lists The algorithms for the insertion and deletion operations on a doubly linked list are somewhat more complicated than the corresponding operations on a singly linked list. The reason is clear: There are more pointers to keep track of in a doubly linked list. June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 75

Inserting Item As an example, consider the Inserting an item. To link the new node, after a given node, in a singly linked list, we need to change two pointers: newNode- next and location- next. The same operation on a doubly linked list requires four pointer changes. June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 76

Singly Linked List Insertion June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 77

Doubly Linked List Insertion June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 78

The Order is Important June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 79

Doubly Linked List - Deletion One useful feature of a doubly linked list is its elimination of the need for a pointer to a node's predecessor to delete the node. Through the back member, we can alter the next member of the preceding node to make it jump over the unwanted node. Then we make the back pointer of the succeeding node point to the preceding node. June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 80

Doubly Linked List - Deletion June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 81

Special Cases of Deletion We do, however, have to be careful about the end cases: If location- back is NULL, we are deleting the first node if location- next is NULL, we are deleting the last node. If both location- back and location- next are NULL, we are deleting the only node. June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 82

Interaction June 17, 2024 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 83