Given an array with n elements, we want to rearrange them in ascending order. Sorting algorithms such as the Bubble, Insertion and Selection Sort all have a quadratic time complexity that limits their use when the number of elements is very big. In this paper, we introduce Merge Sort, a divide-andconquer algorithm to sort an N element array. We evaluate the O(NlogN) time complexity of merge sor...

For many stand-alone hospitals, a merger, partnership, or affiliation may be the only option to access scale and remain viable in the nation's emerging new healthcare delivery system. These organizations can consider many options for affiliation, including traditional options such as affiliation with regional academic medical centers, a merger or takeover to become the corporate member of a lar...

Modelling is a fairly mature technology that is already being adopted by industry. Unfortunately the tools for supporting Model-Driven Engineering are not at the same level of maturity. In particular merge tools that are an important help for collaboration lack a lot to be desired in providing the support that is needed on industrial projects. Current model merge tools and research approaches f...

Freeway merge areas are recognized as the most common segment of recurrent freeway congestion as two separate traffic streams join to merge a single stream. Over the years, several studies have attempted to explain and analyze a merge capacity phenomenon, however relatively few analytical techniques have been developed to evaluate the traffic flow in these areas. This study described a new inte...

Label reduction is a technique for simplifying families of labeled transition systems by dropping distinctions between certain transition labels. While label reduction is critical to the efficient computation of merge-and-shrink heuristics, current theory only permits reducing labels in a limited number of cases. We generalize this theory so that labels can be reduced in every intermediate abst...

The binary merging algorithm is the best general purpose merging algorithm known to date. Binary merge consists of two components: a rst component in which an array index is incremented by a number nearly equal to the ratio of the sizes of the two arrays being merged followed by a second component which is binary search. In this paper we formulate a simple algorithm called interpolation merge, ...