Article
Keywords:
minimax and minimean complexity; optimal algorithm; uniform complexity
Summary:
Using counterexample it has been shown that an algorithm which is minimax optimal and over all minimax optimal algorithms is minimean optimal and has a uniform behaviour need not to be minimean optimal.
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Minimean Optimality in Sorting Algorithms. Proceedings of 16th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science. 1975, 71 - 74.
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