Understand How The AVL Tree Works

Understand How The Avl Tree W

In this assignment, you will implement an AVL tree along with a set of associated functions. The task involves creating a data structure where each node contains an integer key and an integer value. You must ensure your implementation correctly maintains the balance property of AVL trees during insertions and deletions. No duplicate items are allowed; items are considered duplicates if both their keys and values match. While multiple items can share the same key, the number of duplicates with the same key is constant. Your code should be written in C, with thorough comments explaining your logic and choices.

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The primary goal of this assignment is to deepen the understanding of how AVL trees operate, particularly their self-balancing properties, and to gain practical experience in implementing complex data structures in C. An AVL tree is a self-balancing binary search tree designed to maintain a logarithmic height, ensuring efficient operations such as insertion, deletion, and search.

Implementing an AVL tree requires careful handling of rotations to preserve its balance factor constraints. The balance factor of each node, defined as the height difference between its left and right subtrees, must always be -1, 0, or 1. When inserting or deleting an element causes this factor to go outside these bounds, rotations are performed to restore balance. These rotations include single rotations (left or right) and double rotations (left-right or right-left), depending on the imbalance type.

The assignment specifies that each node contains an integer key and value, with the constraints that no duplicate items exist—that is, no two nodes possess identical key-value pairs. However, it is permissible for multiple nodes to share the same key, provided their values differ. The number of duplicate nodes with the same key remains constant, simplifying the handling of duplicate keys in the implementation.

In developing your AVL tree, you'll need to implement core operations such as:

• Recursive insertion that maintains AVL balance via rotations.
• Deletion with rebalancing, ensuring the tree remains balanced after removing nodes.
• Search functions to locate nodes based on keys or values.
• Supporting functions for rotation, height calculation, and balance factor determination.

Efficiency is a critical aspect—your code must correctly handle all operations in logarithmic time. Proper memory management and clear commenting are essential for readability and correctness.

Finally, the implementation should not only be correct but also efficient, minimizing unnecessary computations, and should be thoroughly tested with various datasets to ensure robustness.

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