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Functional Pearls: Unravelling greedy algorithms

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2008

Richard S. Bird
Richard S. Bird
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Programming Research Group, Oxford University, UK
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In my previous Functional Pearls article (Bird, 1992), I proved a theorem giving conditions under which an optimization problem could be implemented by a greedy algorithm. A greedy algorithm is one that picks a ‘best’ element at each stage. Here, we return to this theorem and extend it in various ways. We then use the theory to solve an intriguing problem about unravelling sequences into a smallest number of ascending subsequences.

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Journal of Functional Programming , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , July 1992 , pp. 375 - 385
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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