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Skip List: Implementation, Optimization and Web Search
Godwin Adu-Boateng, Matthew N. Anyanwu
Pages - 7 - 13     |    Revised - 30-06-2015     |    Published - 31-07-2015
Volume - 5   Issue - 1    |    Publication Date - July 2015  Table of Contents
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KEYWORDS
Skip List, Efficient Algorithms, Web Search.
ABSTRACT
Even as computer processing speeds have become faster and the size of memory has also increased over the years, the need for elegant algorithms (programs that accomplish such tasks/operations as information retrieval, and manipulation as efficiently as possible) remain as important now as it did in the past. It is even more so as more complex problems come to the fore. Skip List is a probabilistic data structure with algorithms to efficiently accomplish such operations as search, insert and delete. In this paper, we present the results of implementing the Skip List data structure. The paper also addresses current Web search strategies and algorithms and how the application of Skip List implementation techniques and extensions can bring about optimal search query results.
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Mr. Godwin Adu-Boateng
Center of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Department of Medicine University of Mississippi Medical Center Jackson, MS 39216, USA - United States of America
gaduboateng@umc.edu
Dr. Matthew N. Anyanwu
- United States of America


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