Draft:Arne Andersson (computer scientist)

  • Comment: Just being a full Professor does not prove notability. There is nothing here about his awards or citations that show that he passes WP:NPROF, as his name is quite common. This must be proved. Ldm1954 (talk) 00:14, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

Arne Andersson
Born
Arne Andersson

(1957-12-07) December 7, 1957 (age 67)
EducationPhD
Known forAlgorithms and data structures
SpouseKerstin Andersson
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsLund University
Uppsala University
Thesis Efficient Search Trees  (1990)
Doctoral advisorSvante Carlsson
Websiteuser.it.uu.se/~arneande/

Arne Andersson (born December 7, 1957) is a Swedish computer scientist. He is mostly known for work in data structures, sorting and searching.

Personal life, education and Career

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He was born in Västervik, Sweden. Earning High School Degree (studentexamen) in 1976, he continued to earn a Teacher's Certificate in the sciences in 1981. He served as a high-school teacher from 1981 to 1984. He obtained his PhD degree in 1990, at Lund University, for his dissertation Efficient Search Trees. He was a researcher in Lund University from 1990 to 1998, and then moved to Uppsala University, where he is a professor.

Notable Works

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Among Andersson's most cited publications are:

  • Andersson, Arne (1993). "Balanced search trees made simple". Workshop on algorithms and data structures. Springer. pp. 60–71., where he presented AA trees
  • Andersson, Arne; Nilsson, Stefan (1994). "A New Efficient Radix Sort". 35th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science. IEEE. pp. 714–721., which introduced Forward Radix Sort, a version of radix sort with attractive complexity when sorting strings
  • Andersson, Arne; Hagerup, Torben; Nilsson, Stefan; Raman, Rajeev (1995). "Sorting in linear time?". Proceedings of the twenty-seventh annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing. ACM. pp. 427–436., where a word RAM sorting algorithm is given, which runs in   time, or randomized linear time when words are large enough.
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