On the competitiveness of the move-to-front rule

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Title:	On the competitiveness of the move-to-front rule
Author:	Roura Ferret, Salvador; Martínez Parra, Conrado
Other authors:	Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Ciències de la Computació
Abstract:	We consider the list access problem and show that one questionable assumption in the original cost model presented by Sleator and Tarjan (Amortized Efficiency of List Update and Paging Rules, CACM, 28(2):202-208, 1985) and subsequent literature allowed for several competitiveness results of the move-to-front rule (MTF). We present an off-line algorithm for the list access problem and prove that, under a more realistic cost model, no on-line algorithm can be c-competitive for any constant c, MTF included.
Subject(s):	-Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Informàtica teòrica -MTF -Move-to -ront rule
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Document type:	Article - Published version Report
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