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    This document provides an overview of insertion sort and shellsort sorting algorithms. It explains that sorting is an important task in computing used for organizing data. Insertion sort works by building a sorted list from left to right, inserting each new item in the correct position. Shellsort improves on insertion sort by making multiple passes and shifting items further apart, sorting subsets of the full list. Both algorithms have quadratic runtime but shellsort is faster for medium sized lists, while other algorithms like merge and quicksort are preferred for large lists. Examples are provided to illustrate how each algorithm sorts sample data sets.

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    This document provides an overview of insertion sort and shellsort sorting algorithms. It explains that sorting is an important task in computing used for organizing data. Insertion sort works by building a sorted list from left to right, inserting each new item in the correct position. Shellsort improves on insertion sort by making multiple passes and shifting items further apart, sorting subsets of the full list. Both algorithms have quadratic runtime but shellsort is faster for medium sized lists, while other algorithms like merge and quicksort are preferred for large lists. Examples are provided to illustrate how each algorithm sorts sample data sets.

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    This document provides an overview of insertion sort and shellsort sorting algorithms. It explains that sorting is an important task in computing used for organizing data. Insertion sort works by building a sorted list from left to right, inserting each new item in the correct position. Shellsort improves on insertion sort by making multiple passes and shifting items further apart, sorting subsets of the full list. Both algorithms have quadratic runtime but shellsort is faster for medium sized lists, while other algorithms like merge and quicksort are preferred for large lists. Examples are provided to illustrate how each algorithm sorts sample data sets.

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    Insertion Sort & Shellsort

    By: Andy Le CS146 Dr. Sin Min Lee Spring 2004

    Outline
    Importance of Sorting Insertion Sort
    Explanation Runtime Advantage and Disadvantage Walk through example History Explanation Runtime Advantage and Disadvantage Walk through example

    Shell Sort

    Why we do sorting?
    Commonly encountered programming task in computing. Examples of sorting:
    List containing exam scores sorted from Lowest to Highest or from Highest to Lowest List containing words that were misspelled and be listed in alphabetical order. List of student records and sorted by student number or alphabetically by first or last name.

    Why we do sorting?
    Searching for an element in an array will be more efficient. (example: looking up for information like phone number). Its always nice to see data in a sorted display. (example: spreadsheet or database application). Computers sort things much faster.

    History of Sorting
    Sorting is one of the most important operations performed by computers. In the days of magnetic tape storage before modern databases, database updating was done by sorting transactions and merging them with a master file.

    History of Sorting
    It's still important for presentation of data extracted from databases: most people prefer to get reports sorted into some relevant order before flipping through pages of data!

    Insertion Sort
    Insertion sort keeps making the left side of the array sorted until the whole array is sorted. It sorts the values seen far away and repeatedly inserts unseen values in the array into the left sorted array. It is the simplest of all sorting algorithms. Although it has the same complexity as Bubble Sort, the insertion sort is a little over twice as efficient as the bubble sort.

    Insertion Sort
    Real life example:
    An example of an insertion sort occurs in everyday life while playing cards. To sort the cards in your hand you extract a card, shift the remaining cards, and then insert the extracted card in the correct place. This process is repeated until all the cards are in the correct sequence.

    Insertion Sort runtimes


    Best case: O(n). It occurs when the data is in sorted order. After making one pass through the data and making no insertions, insertion sort exits. Average case: (n^2) since there is a wide variation with the running time. Worst case: O(n^2) if the numbers were sorted in reverse order.

    Empirical Analysis of Insertion Sort

    The graph demonstrates the n^2 complexity of the insertion sort.

    Source: http://linux.wku.edu/~lamonml/algor/sort/insertion.html

    Insertion Sort
    The insertion sort is a good choice for sorting lists of a few thousand items or less.

    Insertion Sort
    The insertion sort shouldn't be used for sorting lists larger than a couple thousand items or repetitive sorting of lists larger than a couple hundred items.

    Insertion Sort
    This algorithm is much simpler than the shell sort, with only a small trade-off in efficiency. At the same time, the insertion sort is over twice as fast as the bubble sort.

    Advantage of Insertion Sort


    The advantage of Insertion Sort is that it is relatively simple and easy to implement.

    Disadvantage of Insertion Sort


    The disadvantage of Insertion Sort is that it is not efficient to operate with a large list or input size.

    Insertion Sort Example


    Sort: 34 8 64 51 32 21 34 8 64 51 32 21
    The algorithm sees that 8 is smaller than 34 so it swaps.

    8 34 64 51 32 21
    51 is smaller than 64, so they swap.

    8 34 51 64 32 21

    Insertion Sort Example


    Sort: 34 8 64 51 32 21 8 34 51 64 32 21 (from previous slide)
    The algorithm sees 32 as another smaller number and moves it to its appropriate location between 8 and 34.

    8 32 34 51 64 21
    The algorithm sees 21 as another smaller number and moves into between 8 and 32.

    Final sorted numbers: 8 21 32 34 51 64

    Shellsort
    Founded by Donald Shell and named the sorting algorithm after himself in 1959. 1st algorithm to break the quadratic time barrier but few years later, a sub quadratic time bound was proven Shellsort works by comparing elements that are distant rather than adjacent elements in an array or list where adjacent elements are compared.

    Shellsort
    Shellsort uses a sequence h1, h2, , ht called the increment sequence. Any increment sequence is fine as long as h1 = 1 and some other choices are better than others.

    Shellsort
    Shellsort makes multiple passes through a list and sorts a number of equally sized sets using the insertion sort.

    Shellsort
    Shellsort improves on the efficiency of insertion sort by quickly shifting values to their destination.

    Shellsort
    Shellsort is also known as diminishing increment sort. The distance between comparisons decreases as the sorting algorithm runs until the last phase in which adjacent elements are compared

    Shellsort
    After each phase and some increment hk, for every i, we have a[ i ] a [ i + hk ] all elements spaced hk apart are sorted. The file is said to be hk sorted.

    Empirical Analysis of Shellsort

    Source: http://linux.wku.edu/~lamonml/algor/sort/shell.html

    Empirical Analysis of Shellsort (Advantage)


    Advantage of Shellsort is that its only efficient for medium size lists. For bigger lists, the algorithm is not the best choice. Fastest of all O(N^2) sorting algorithms. 5 times faster than the bubble sort and a little over twice as fast as the insertion sort, its closest competitor.

    Empirical Analysis of Shellsort (Disadvantage)


    Disadvantage of Shellsort is that it is a complex algorithm and its not nearly as efficient as the merge, heap, and quick sorts. The shell sort is still significantly slower than the merge, heap, and quick sorts, but its relatively simple algorithm makes it a good choice for sorting lists of less than 5000 items unless speed important. It's also an excellent choice for repetitive sorting of smaller lists.

    Shellsort Best Case


    Best Case: The best case in the shell sort is when the array is already sorted in the right order. The number of comparisons is less.

    Shellsort Worst Case


    The running time of Shellsort depends on the choice of increment sequence. The problem with Shells increments is that pairs of increments are not necessarily relatively prime and smaller increments can have little effect.

    Shellsort Examples
    Sort: 18 32 12 5 38 33 16 2
    8 Numbers to be sorted, Shells increment will be floor(n/2) * floor(8/2) floor(4) = 4 increment 4: 1 2 3 4 (visualize underlining)

    18 32 12 5 38 33 16

    Step 1) Only look at 18 and 38 and sort in order ; 18 and 38 stays at its current position because they are in order.

    Step 2) Only look at 32 and 33 and sort in order ; 32 and 33 stays at its current position because they are in order.
    Step 3) Only look at 12 and 16 and sort in order ; 12 and 16 stays at its current position because they are in order. Step 4) Only look at 5 and 2 and sort in order ; 2 and 5 need to be switched to be in order.

    Shellsort Examples (cont)


    Sort: 18 32 12 5 38 33 16 2 Resulting numbers after increment 4 pass: 18 32 12 2 38 33 16 5
    * floor(4/2) floor(2) = 2 increment 2: 18 1 2 32 12 2 38 33 16 5

    Step 1) Look at 18, 12, 38, 16 and sort them in their appropriate location: 12 12 38 2 16 16 2 5 18 18 33 32 38 38 5 33

    Step 2) Look at 32, 2, 33, 5 and sort them in their appropriate location:

    Shellsort Examples (cont)


    Sort: 18 32 12 5 38 33 16 2
    * floor(2/2) floor(1) = 1 increment 1: 1

    12
    2

    2
    5

    16
    12

    5
    16

    18
    18

    32
    32

    38
    33

    33
    38

    The last increment or phase of Shellsort is basically an Insertion Sort algorithm.

    Additional Online References


    Spark Notes (From Barnes & Noble):
    http://www.sparknotes.com/cs/

    The End

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