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ON A CONJECTURE OF FILL AND HOLST INVOLVING THE MOVE-TO-FRONT RULE AND CACHE FAULTS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 1999

Martin Hildebrand
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, State University of New York, University at Albany, Albany, NY 12222, martinhi@math.albany.edu

Abstract

Fill and Holst conjectured for the move-to-front rule that the probability that the search time is greater than c will be Schur concave in the stationary distribution for any value of c. This paper disproves the conjecture but proves some conclusions that would be implied by the conjecture.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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