Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "In computer science, partial sorting is a relaxed variant of the sorting problem. Total sorting is the problem of returning a list of items such that its elements all appear in order, while partial sorting is returning a list of the k smallest (or k largest) elements in order. The other elements (above the k smallest ones) may also be stored, as in an in-place partial sort, or may be discarded, which is common in streaming partial sorts. A common practical example of partial sorting is computing the \"Top 100\" of some list.In terms of indices, in a partially sorted list, for every index i from 1 to k, the ith element is in the same place as it would be in the fully sorted list: element i of the partially sorted list contains order statistic i of the input list."@en }
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- Partial_sorting abstract "In computer science, partial sorting is a relaxed variant of the sorting problem. Total sorting is the problem of returning a list of items such that its elements all appear in order, while partial sorting is returning a list of the k smallest (or k largest) elements in order. The other elements (above the k smallest ones) may also be stored, as in an in-place partial sort, or may be discarded, which is common in streaming partial sorts. A common practical example of partial sorting is computing the \"Top 100\" of some list.In terms of indices, in a partially sorted list, for every index i from 1 to k, the ith element is in the same place as it would be in the fully sorted list: element i of the partially sorted list contains order statistic i of the input list.".