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Analytic analysis of algorithms

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Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP 1992)

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The average case analysis of algorithms can avail itself of the development of synthetic methods in combinatorial enumerations and in asymptotic analysis. Symbolic methods in combinatorial analysis permit to express directly the counting generating functions of wide classes of combinatorial structures. Asymptotic methods based on complex analysis permit to extract directly coefficients of structurally complicated generating functions without a need for explicit coefficient expansions.

Three major groups of problems relative to algebraic equations, differential equations, and iteration are presented. The range of applications includes formal languages, tree enumerations, comparison-based searching and sorting, digital structures, hashing and occupancy problems.

These analytic approaches allow an abstract discussion of asymptotic properties of combinatorial structures and schemas while opening the way for automatic analysis of whole classes of combinatorial algorithms.

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Flajolet, P. (1992). Analytic analysis of algorithms. In: Kuich, W. (eds) Automata, Languages and Programming. ICALP 1992. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 623. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-55719-9_74

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