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An O(n log n) Version of the Averbakh-Berman Algorithm for the Robust Median of a Tree

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  • Department of Computer Science
We show that the minmax regret median of a tree can be found in O(nlog n) time. This is obtained by a modification of Averbakh and Berman's O(nlog2 n)-time algorithm: We design a dynamic solution to their bottleneck subproblem of finding the middle of every root-leaf path in a tree.
Original languageEnglish
JournalOperations Research Letters
Volume36
Issue1
Pages (from-to)14 -18
Number of pages5
ISSN0167-6377
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2008

    Research areas

  • MinmaxRegret, Tree Median, Robust Optimization

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