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self-organizing list

(data structure)

Definition: A list that reorders the elements based on some self-organizing heuristic to improve average access time.

Author: PEB


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Entry modified 17 December 2004.
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Paul E. Black, "self-organizing list", in Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [online], Paul E. Black, ed., U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology. 17 December 2004. (accessed TODAY) Available from: http://www.itl.nist.gov/div897/sqg/dads/HTML/selfOrganizingList.html

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