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Imagine an operating system whose daily operation includes accessing various files of a library F, one at a time. Let us assume that the cost of accessing a file is a function only of the location of that file and the location of the file previously accessed. That is, associated with the set L of locations, we have a cost matrix C with cij representing the cost of accessing the file at location j immediately after visiting location i.
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Pratt, V.R. (1972). An n log n Algorithm to Distribute n Records Optimally in a Sequential Access File. In: Miller, R.E., Thatcher, J.W., Bohlinger, J.D. (eds) Complexity of Computer Computations. The IBM Research Symposia Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2001-2_11
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