Queues
Abstract
Queue is a fancy name for a waiting line. The basic idea is that things enter one end of the queue (the tail), wait for awhile, and get serviced at the other end of the queue (the head). This is what happens to people in a grocery store checkout line or to DVDs in a Netflix list.
Keywords
Dequeue
Enqueue
FIFO
LIFO
Netflix
Priority queues
Rearrangement
Waiting line
Queue is a fancy name for a waiting line. The basic idea is that things enter one end of the queue (the tail), wait for awhile and get serviced at the other end of the queue (the head). This is what happens to people in a grocery store checkout line or to DVDs in your Netflix list.
Each element has a position in the queue, so we know that a table to model ...
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