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DOI: 10.7155/jgaa.00212
A Linear-Time Approximation Algorithm for Rotation Distance
Sean Cleary and Katherine St. John
Vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 385-390, 2010. Concise paper.
Abstract Rotation distance between rooted binary trees measures the number of simple operations it takes to transform one tree into another. There are no known polynomial-time algorithms for computing rotation distance. In this short note, we give an efficient, linear-time approximation algorithm, which estimates the rotation distance, within a provable factor of 2, between ordered rooted binary trees.
Submitted: July 2009.
Reviewed: August 2009.
Revised: August 2010.
Accepted: August 2010.
Final: August 2010.
Published: November 2010.
Communicated by Tandy Warnow
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