This new edition provides a comprehensive and technically rigorous introduction to data structures such as arrays, stacks, queues, linked lists, trees and graphs and techniques such as sorting hashing that form the basis of all software. In addition, this text presents advanced or specialized data structures such as priority queues, efficient binary search trees, multiway search trees and digital search structures. The book now discusses topics such as weight biased leftist trees, pairing heaps, symmetric min–max heaps, interval heaps, top-down splay trees, B+ trees and suffix trees. Red-black trees have been made more accessible. The section on multiway tries has been significantly expanded and discusses several trie variations and their application to Internet packet forwarding.

Introduces the fundamental concepts of data structures and their implementation using the C programming language. Covers arrays, linked lists, stacks, queues, trees, graphs, sorting and searching techniques, recursion, memory management, and algorithm analysis, providing a foundation for the design and development of efficient computer programs.