DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF PREDICTIVE SORTING ALGORITHMS

The focus of this research is the class of sequential al-gorithms called predictive sorting algorithms for sorting a given set of n elements using pairwise comparisons. The order in which these pairwise comparisons are made is defined by a fixed sequence of all un-ordered pairs of distinct integers{1,2 ···,n} called a sort sequence. A predictive sorting algorithm associated with a sort sequence spec-ifies pairwise comparisons of elements in the input set in the order defined by the sort sequence except that the comparisons whose out-comes can be inferred from the preceding pairs of comparisons are not performed. in this paper predictive sorting algorithms are obtained based on known sorting algorithms and are shown to be required on the average O(n log n) comparisons.