Binary Search Trees

Many of the slides are from Prof. Plaisteds resources at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Binary Search Trees

View today as data structures that can support dynamic set operations.
Search, Minimum, Maximum, Predecessor, Successor, Insert, and Delete.

Can be used to build

Dictionaries. Priority Queues.

Basic operations take time proportional to the height of the tree O(h).

BST Representation
Represented by a linked data structure of nodes. root(T) points to the root of tree T. Each node contains fields:
key left pointer to left child: root of left subtree. right pointer to right child : root of right subtree. p pointer to parent. p[root[T]] = NIL (optional).

Binary Search Tree Property

Stored keys must satisfy the binary search tree property.
y in left subtree of x, then key[y] key[x]. y in right subtree of x, then key[y] key[x]. 26

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Inorder Traversal
The binary-search-tree property allows the keys of a binary search tree to be printed, in (monotonically increasing) order, recursively.

Inorder-Tree-Walk (x) 1. if x NIL 2. then Inorder-Tree-Walk(left[p]) 3. print key[x] 4. Inorder-Tree-Walk(right[p])

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How long does the walk take? Can you prove its correctness?

Correctness of Inorder-Walk
Must prove that it prints all elements, in order, and that it terminates. By induction on size of tree. Size=0: Easy. Size >1:
Prints left subtree in order by induction. Prints root, which comes after all elements in left subtree (still in order). Prints right subtree in order (all elements come after root, so still in order).

Querying a Binary Search Tree

All dynamic-set search operations can be supported in O(h) time. h = (lg n) for a balanced binary tree (and for an average tree built by adding nodes in random order.) h = (n) for an unbalanced tree that resembles a linear chain of n nodes in the worst case.

Tree Search
Tree-Search(x, k) 1. if x = NIL or k = key[x] 2. then return x 3. if k < key[x] 4. then return Tree-Search(left[x], k) 5. else return Tree-Search(right[x], k)
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Running time: O(h)

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Iterative Tree Search

Iterative-Tree-Search(x, k) 1. while x NIL and k key[x] 2. do if k < key[x] 3. then x left[x] 4. else x right[x] 5. return x
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The iterative tree search is more efficient on most computers. The recursive tree search is more straightforward.

Finding Min & Max

The binary-search-tree property guarantees that: The minimum is located at the left-most node. The maximum is located at the right-most node.

Tree-Minimum(x) 1. while left[x] NIL 2. do x left[x] 3. return x Q: How long do they take?

Tree-Maximum(x) 1. while right[x] NIL 2. do x right[x] 3. return x

Predecessor and Successor

Successor of node x is the node y such that key[y] is the smallest key greater than key[x]. The successor of the largest key is NIL. Search consists of two cases.
If node x has a non-empty right subtree, then xs successor is the minimum in the right subtree of x. If node x has an empty right subtree, then:
As long as we move to the left up the tree (move up through right children), we are visiting smaller keys. xs successor y is the node that x is the predecessor of (x is the maximum in ys left subtree). In other words, xs successor y, is the lowest ancestor of x whose left child is also an ancestor of x.

Pseudo-code for Successor

Tree-Successor(x) if right[x] NIL 2. then return Tree-Minimum(right[x]) 3. y p[x] 4. while y NIL and x = right[y] 5. do x y 6. y p[y] 7. return y

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Code for predecessor is symmetric.

Running time: O(h)
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BST Insertion Pseudocode

Change the dynamic set represented by a BST. Ensure the binarysearch-tree property holds after change. Insertion is easier than deletion.
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Tree-Insert(T, z) 1. y NIL 2. x root[T] 3. while x NIL 4. do y x 5. if key[z] < key[x] 6. then x left[x] 7. else x right[x] 8. p[z] y 9. if y = NIL 10. then root[t] z 11. else if key[z] < key[y] 12. then left[y] z 13. else right[y] z

Analysis of Insertion
Initialization: O(1)

While loop in lines 3-7 searches for place to insert z, maintaining parent y. This takes O(h) time.
Lines 8-13 insert the value: O(1) TOTAL: O(h) time to insert a node.

Tree-Insert(T, z) 1. y NIL 2. x root[T] 3. while x NIL 4. do y x 5. if key[z] < key[x] 6. then x left[x] 7. else x right[x] 8. p[z] y 9. if y = NIL 10. then root[t] z 11. else if key[z] < key[y] 12. then left[y] z 13. else right[y] z

Exercise: Sorting Using BSTs

Sort (A) for i 1 to n do tree-insert(A[i]) inorder-tree-walk(root)
What are the worst case and best case running times? In practice, how would this compare to other sorting algorithms?

Tree-Delete (T, x)
if x has no children case 0 then remove x if x has one child case 1 then make p[x] point to child if x has two children (subtrees) case 2 then swap x with its successor perform case 0 or case 1 to delete it TOTAL: O(h) time to delete a node

 Do it on blackboard

Deletion Pseudocode
Tree-Delete(T, z) /* Determine which node to splice out: either z or zs successor. */ if left[z] = NIL or right[z] = NIL then y z else y Tree-Successor[z] /* Set x to a non-NIL child of y, or to NIL if y has no children. */ 4. if left[y] NIL 5. then x left[y] 6. else x right[y] /* y is removed from the tree by manipulating pointers of p[y] and x */ 7. if x NIL 8. then p[x] p[y] /* Continued on next slide */

Deletion Pseudocode
Tree-Delete(T, z) (Contd. from previous slide) 9. if p[y] = NIL 10. then root[T] x 11. else if y left[p[i]] 12. then left[p[y]] x 13. else right[p[y]] x /* If zs successor was spliced out, copy its data into z */ 14. if y z 15. then key[z] key[y] 16. copy ys satellite data into z. 17. return y

Correctness of Tree-Delete
How do we know case 2 should go to case 0 or case 1 instead of back to case 2? Because when x has 2 children, its successor is the minimum in its right subtree, and that successor has no left child (hence 0 or 1 child).

Equivalently, we could swap with predecessor instead of successor. It might be good to alternate to avoid creating lopsided tree.

Binary Search Trees

View today as data structures that can support dynamic set operations.
Search, Minimum, Maximum, Predecessor, Successor, Insert, and Delete.

Can be used to build

Dictionaries. Priority Queues.

Basic operations take time proportional to the height of the tree O(h).

Red-black trees: Overview

Red-black trees are a variation of binary search trees to ensure that the tree is balanced.
Height is O(lg n), where n is the number of nodes.

Operations take O(lg n) time in the worst case.

Red-black Tree
Binary search tree + 1 bit per node: the attribute color, which is either red or black. All other attributes of BSTs are inherited: key, left, right, and p. All empty trees (leaves) are colored black.
We use a single sentinel, nil, for all the leaves of red-black tree T, with color[nil] = black. The roots parent is also nil[T ].

Red-black Tree Example

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Red-black Properties
1. 2. 3. 4. Every node is either red or black. The root is black. Every leaf (nil) is black. If a node is red, then both its children are black.

5. For each node, all paths from the node to descendant leaves contain the same number of black nodes.

Height of a Red-black Tree

Height of a node:
Number of edges in a longest path to a leaf.

Black-height of a node x, bh(x):

bh(x) is the number of black nodes (including nil[T ]) on the path from x to leaf, not counting x.

Black-height of a red-black tree is the black-height of its root.

By Property 5, black height is well defined.

Height of a Red-black Tree

Example: Height of a node:
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Black-height of a node bh(x) is the number of black nodes on path from x to leaf, not counting x.

h=2 30 bh=1

h=1 bh=1

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Hysteresis : or the value of lazyness

Hysteresis, n. [fr. Gr. to be behind, to lag.] a retardation of an effect when the forces acting upon a body are changed (as if from viscosity or internal friction); especially: a lagging in the values of resulting magnetization in a magnetic material (as iron) due to a changing magnetizing force