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COMP3506 Homework 3 – Heaps, Trees, Hashtables
Weighting: 15%
Due date: 25th September 2020, 11:55 pm
Overview
In this assignment, you will be applying your knowledge of trees, heaps, maps, sets, and hashtables to Java programming
questions.
Marks
This assignment is worth 15% of your total grade. Both COMP3506 and COMP7505 students will be marked on
questions 1 to 4 out of 45 marks.
Submission Instructions
• Your solutions to Q1 will be submitted via Gradescope to the Homework 3 - Question 1 submission. You
should only submit your completed QuaternaryHeapsort.java file.
• Your solutions to Q2 will be submitted via Gradescope to the Homework 3 - Question 2 submission. You
should only submit your completed StrongHeap.java file.
• Your solutions to Q3 will be submitted via Gradescope to the Homework 3 - Question 3 submission. You
should only submit your completed BinaryTreeComparator.java file.
• Your solutions to Q4 will be submitted via Gradescope to the Homework 3 - Question 4 submission. You
should only submit your completed LinkedMultiHashSet.java file.
• No marks will be awarded for non-compiling submissions, or submissions which import non-supported 3rd
party libraries. You should follow all constraints laid out in the relevant questions.
• Zip files (or other compressed file formats) won’t be marked - you should only submit the relevant java file
to Gradescope.
Late Submissions and Extensions
Late submissions will not be accepted. It is your responsibility to ensure you have submitted your work well in
advance of the deadline (taking into account the possibility of internet or Gradescope issues). Only the latest
submission before the deadline will be marked. See the ECP for information about extensions.
Academic Misconduct
This assignment is an individual assignment. Posting questions or copying answers from the internet is considered
cheating, as is sharing your answers with classmates. All your work (including code) will be analysed by
sophisticated plagiarism detection software. Students are reminded of the University’s policy on student misconduct,
including plagiarism. See the course profile and the School web page: http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/
itee-student-misconduct-including-plagiarism.
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Support Files Provided
The following provided support files you should not modify or submit:
• BinaryTree.java – an implementation of a binary tree node. A binary tree is made up of many binary tree
nodes linked together.
• MultiSet.java – a multiset ADT.
The following support files have been provided to you, but you will need to modify them to complete the relevant
questions and then submit them:
• QuaternaryHeapsort.java – you need to implement your question 1 solution in this file.
• StrongHeap.java – you need to implement your question 2 solution in this file.
• BinaryTreeComparator.java - you need to implement your question 3 solution in this file.
• MultiLinkedHashSet.java – you need to implement your question 4 solution in this file.
Notes and Constraints
• You will be marked by a human on your code style (e.g. for following the style guide, and general readability)
for all programming questions. You should follow the CSSE2002 style guide as given on Blackboard.
• Your solution will be automatically marked using Java 11. No marks will be awarded for non-compiling
submissions, or submissions which import non-supported 3rd party libraries.
• Do not add any public methods, constructors, or fields to Java classes besides those specified in the relevant
questions. You may add private helper methods if needed.
• You shouldn’t use any additional classes from the Java Collections Framework (e.g. ArrayList, LinkedList,
HashMap), unless otherwise stated or already imported for you in the support files (e.g. Iterator or Comparator).
• Your solutions to all questions should be as efficient as possible (with regards to their time complexity).
• Sample tests have been provided. However, these are far from exhaustive and your actual submissions will be
marked on a much larger set of test cases. You should ensure you write your own tests while working on your
assignment.
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Questions
1. (10 marks) Recall in-place heapsort described in lectures and tutorials, where we build a binary heap in-place
bottom-up within an array. A variant of a binary heap is a quaternary heap which is a heap where nodes can
have (at most) 4 children.
In this question, you will implement in-place quaternary heapsort. This should build a quaternary heap
in-place bottom-up, then use this to sort the array in ascending order.
(a) First, you should implement the helper function quaternaryDownheap in QuaternaryHeapsort.java.
This should perform a downheap operation on a quaternary max heap within an array.
(b) Using this helper function, implement quaternaryHeapsort within QuaternaryHeapsort.java.
(c) State the worst case time and space complexity (in Big-O notation) of all your methods in their Javadoc.
Below is an example visualisation of a quaternary max heap. Note that it is a complete quaternary tree (leaf
nodes of bottommost level are as far left as possible). The array representation of the below heap would be
[9, 2, 5, 7, 5, 1, 0, 2].
Here are some examples of quaternaryDownheap. It works on the array representation of a heap and performs
the downheap in-place.
• Input heap [0, 10, 20, 30, 40] size 5 and start 0 would result in [40, 10, 20, 30, 0].
• Input heap [1, 0, 2, 3, 4, 10, 20, 30, 40], size 9 and start index 1 would result in [1, 40, 2, 3, 4, 10, 20, 30, 0].
Note that higher levels (the root node in this case) are not changed, regardless of whether they satisfy
the heap property.
• Input heap [10, 20, 1, 2, 3, 11, 12, 13, 14], size 9 and start index 0 would continue the downheap through
the entire heap, resulting in [20, 14, 1, 2, 3, 11, 12, 13, 10].
• Input heap [10, 20, 1, 2, 3, 11, 12, 13, 14], size 5 and start index 0 would only consider the first 5 items in
the array, resulting in [20, 10, 1, 2, 3, 11, 12, 13, 14]. Values at index ≥ size are not modified.
Notes:
• You should create and use private helper methods to improve readability of your code.
• You will be given no marks for any variant of heapsort that doesn’t utilise a quaternary heap.
Updates:
• 15/09/2020: Added a ‘size’ parameter to quaternaryDownheap’s method, added 2 examples and clarified
behaviour.
quaternaryDownheap should perform the downheap operation starting from the given index and continue
to the end of the heap (i.e. the given size). The size is total size of the heap from index 0. Assume that
the start index is the only node which may be violating the max heap property. Your algorithm should
not modify nodes which are outside the subtree of the start index.
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2. (10 marks) We will call a binary tree a strong heap1
if it is a complete binary tree and it satisfies the “strong
(max) heap property” as:
• for all nodes x, we have x < parent(x), and
• for nodes x in level 2 or below, we also have x + parent(x) < parent(parent(x)).
In StrongHeap.java, implement isStrongHeap. This takes one argument, the root of a binary tree, and
returns whether the given binary tree is a strong max heap. State the worst case time and space complexity
(in Big-O notation) in the method’s Javadoc.
These are some examples of trees which are and are not strong heaps. The second is not a strong heap because
5 + 5 ≮ 10. The third is not a strong heap because the tree is not complete, despite satisfying the strong heap
property.
Hints and notes:
• As a reminder, the root node of a tree is at level 0.
• A tree with a single node is trivially a strong binary heap.
• Strong binary heaps are a subset of binary heaps.
• If a binary tree is not complete, it cannot be a strong heap. If a tree is complete, you must check the
strong heap property to determine whether it is a strong heap.
• Node values can be negative but not null. Negatives should not be treated specially.
Updates:
• 15/09/2020: You may use classes from the Java Collections Framework (e.g. ArrayList, LinkedList,
HashMap, HashSet) for this question. Your choice of data structures will affect the running time of your
algorithm.
1This is just terminology used here and has no relevance outside this assignment.
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3. (10 marks) This question is about comparing binary trees.
To compare two binary tree nodes, we first compare their left subtrees, then compare their values (with
compareTo), then compare their right subtrees. If all of these are equal, then the nodes are equal. Otherwise
the first non-equal comparison in this order is the result of the comparison. To compare the subtrees, you
should recurse and compare them in the same way as described here.
Regarding nulls (e.g. missing left/right children), a null subtree should compare equal to another null, or less
than any non-null subtree.
Implement the BinaryTreeComparator class in BinaryTreeComparator.java. This has a single method
compare which takes two trees x and y then returns −1, 0, +1 if x < y, x = y, or x > y (respectively). State
the worst case time and space complexity (in Big-O notation) in the method’s Javadoc.
Here are some examples of trees and how they compare. The highlighted node(s) are those which determine
the comparison result. Take note of the last case where the null left subtree is less than the non-null left
subtree.
Hints and notes:
• You may add private helper methods if needed, but you should not use any instance variables.
• You can assume that values stored within nodes are not null and implement Comparable (so you can use
the compareTo method).
• You cannot assume the node itself will be non-null. Nulls should be compared as described above.
• You should not perform unnecessary comparisons. For example, if the left subtrees differ, you should
not compare the right subtrees.
• Although the Comparator interface only requires the return value to be negative/zero/positive, here you
must return exactly −1, 0, or +1.
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4. (15 marks) A multiset is a collection that extends the idea of a set to have duplicate items. It is able to keep
track of the number of occurrences of each duplicate in the set.
For this question, you will implement LinkedMultiHashSet, a multiset that internally uses a resizing array
and hashing (based on element’s hashCodes) to make most operations run in O(1) average time. In addition
to the ordinary methods for a set, you will need to implement an Iterator which returns elements in a
particular order (see below and Javadoc).
You should also state the worst case time and space complexities of all your methods (in Big-O notation) in
their respective Javadocs.
To gain full marks, you should ensure that:
• The internal hashtable array should start with the initial capacity given as the argument to the constructor
of the class.
• The internal hashtable array should be doubled in size whenever an add operation would make the
array become full. It should not reduce in size.
• Duplicate occurrences of elements should not take up additional space.
• You should use hashCode to hash objects and equals to check equality of elements.
• When a collision occurs (unequal elements which have the same hashCode), you should use linear
probing to find the next position in the hashtable.
• The Iterator for the multiset should return elements grouped by equivalence (that is, equal elements are
returned consecutively). Additionally, these groups of elements should be ordered by when the earliest
occurrence of that element was added. Refer to the Javadoc for more details.
• The methods of LinkedMultiHashSet should run in O(1) expected or average time (you can assume well
chosen hashCode functions for elements passed in). The next and hashCode methods of the Iterator
for the set should also run in O(1) time.
Constraints:
• Your implementation should all be inside LinkedMultiHashSet.java. You may create additional (private)
inner classes however.
• You shouldn’t use any additional classes from the Java Collections Framework (e.g. ArrayList, LinkedList,
HashMap, HashSet). If you wish to utilise similar functionality, you should implement the needed data
structures yourself.
 

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