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Freezing Sort
Surmeet Kaur
2,Partap Nagar Near Zila
Parishad, Sangrur(Pb)

Assistant Professor,
Department of Computer
Science and Engineering.
Lovely Professional
University,
Jalandhar, India

Tarundeep Singh Sodhi
H.No 599 Mota Singh Nagar
Jalandhar(Pb)
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer
Science and Engineering.
Arni University,
Kathgarh-Kangra, Himachal
Pradesh, India

Parveen Kumar
HNo 484/5M,New Govind
Puri Kanker Khera Meerut
Cantt.

Assistant Professor,
Department of Computer
Science and Engineering,
Lovely Professional
University,
Jalandhar, India
ABSTRACT
The term algorithm is now applied to many kinds of
problem solving, such as in setting up a computer program.
An algorithm is as a finite sequence of steps, that can be
used for solving many problems.copied Algorithms are
used for calculation, data processing, and many other
fields. In computer science and mathematics, a sorting
algorithm is an algorithm that puts elements of a list in a
certain order, not necessarily in increasing order, it may be
in decreasing order as well. Efficient sorting is important
to optimizing the use of other algorithms that require
sorted lists to work efficiently; it is also often useful for
producing human- readable output.[1]
In this paper we present a new sorting algorithm, named as
freezing algorithm, which uses the methodology of bubble
sort efficiently to give a much better performance than the
existing sorting algorithms of the O (n
2
) class. We prove
the correctness of the algorithm and give a detailed time
complexity analysis of the algorithm.
General Terms
Algorithm, Stability, Freezing, Comparisons
Keywords
Algorithm, Complexity, Bubble sort, Selection sort.
1. INTRODUCTION
Sorting algorithms are classified by several other criteria
such as Computational complexity (worst, average and
best number of comparisons) in terms of the size of the
list, Stability (Memory usage and use of other computer
resources). The difference between best, worst case and
average behavior, behaviors are practically important data
sets.
There are many sorting algorithms, among which is
Bubble Sort. The basic sorting algorithms are mostly
iterative, and thus probably easier to understand. [8]The
simplest algorithm, but not the most efficient algorithm, is
Bubble sort. Bubble Sort is not known to be a very good
sorting algorithm when compared to other sorting
algorithms. This sort is still used a lot because it is easier
and shorter to type than the other sorts. However, efforts
have been made to improve the performance of the
algorithm.
This paper presents a new algorithm called Freezing Sort
that enhances the performance of bubble sort by reducing
the number of swaps and the number of comparisons. The
results from the implementation of the algorithm
compared with the Bubble sort and other recently used
algorithms showed that the algorithm performed better
than the others in the worst case scenario.
In general O(n
2
) sorting algorithms run slower than
O(nlogn) algorithms, but still their importance cannot be
ignored. Since O(n
2
) algorithms are non recursive in
nature, they require much less space on the RAM.[5]
The paper is organized as follows: section 2 gives the
basic algorithm and section -3 shows an example to
illustrate the working of the algorithm. Section 4 proves
the correctness of the algorithm using the pseudo code,
section 5 gives a detailed time complexity analysis of the
algorithm, section 6 gives number of swaps and also
shows the stability of the proposed algorithm, section 7
shows the comparison of freezing algorithm with recently
used and enhanced algorithms, section 8 concludes, - 9
gives acknowledgement and finally section 10 gives
important references.
2. FREEZING ALGORITHM
Here we can sort the list of elements in an array by a new
freezing technique.
STEP1: We start with first element (BEG) and compare it
with the last element (END) in the list. Swap the values if
the last element is smaller than the first one.i.e. If
END<BEG
STEP2: Now BEG=BEG+1 AND END=END-1
STEP 3: Now repeat step1 for new BEG and END
STEP4: Now freeze the last element in the list and repeat
step1 to 3 for the remaining elements and then freeze the
first element and repeat the process for the remaining list.
STEP 5: Each time increase the no of freezing elements by
1.

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So at the end we will have a SORTED LIST of elements.
3. EXAMPLE
Consider the list as below:
60 5 55 10 22 35
BEG END
Compare BEG and END element. Swap them as
END<BEG
BEG=BEG+1 and END=END-1

35 5 55 10 22 60

BEG END

Compare BEG and END element. No need to
swap them as END>BEG
BEG=BEG+1 and END=END-1
35 5 55 10 22 60
BEG END
Compare BEG and END element. Swap them as
END<BEG
35 5 55 10 22 60
BEG END
Freeze the last element from the list and
repeat the process with the remaining list.
We get
22 5 55 10 35 60
Now freeze the first element in the list and
repeat the process with the remaining list.
We get
22 5 55 10 35 60
BEG END
We get
22 5 35 10 55 60
BEG END
Now freeze the last two elements from the
list and repeat the process with the
remaining list. We get
10 5 25 22 55 60
Now freeze the first two elements from the
list and repeat the process with the
remaining list and so on.
4. PSEUDOCODE
In simple pseudo code, freezing sort algorithm might
be expressed as:
1. Calculate length n
2. var k, x=0, i=1, j=n
3. k=n*mod2
4. If k=0, then
5. k=n/2,
6. else k=(n+k)/2
7. endif
8. i= i+x , j=n
9. do while( i=k-x)
10. compare a[i] with a[j] and swap,
11. i++,j--
12. do while (x<=n-2)
13. x =x+1
14. i=1,j=n-x
15. do while (i=k-x)
16. compare a[i] with a[j] and swap
17. i++,j--
18. goto 8
19. end

5. COMPLEXITY
Best Case, Average Case and Worst Case.
The complexity of freezing algorithm is O(n) in best as
well as average case when all the elements are either in
increasing and decreasing order respectively. So we can
say that we just need to compare n/2 or (n-1)/2 times as we
do not need to freeze any element (lines 8-11 of pseudo
code).[10]
The complexity of this freezing algorithm is O(n
2
) in
average case which is the same as that of selection sort and
bubble sort. For even or odd number of elements, no of
comparisons are n(n-1)/2. For example if:
n no of comparisons
5 10
6 15
7 21
8 28
6. NUMBER OF SWAPS AND
STABILITY
6.1 Swapping Operations
In best case, there is no swapping operation as all the
elements are already sorted.
In average and worst case, when all the elements are
unsorted or in decreasing order then the number of swaps
are n/2 or (n-1)/2 depending upon the odd or even number
of elements. For example:
50 30 20 10 5
5 30 20 10 50
5 10 20 30 50
Number of swaps=2 i.e (n-1)/2


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6.2 Stability
Stablility means maintaining the relative order of records
with equal values, i.e a sorting algorithm is stable if
whenever there are two records M and N with the same
key and with M appearing before N in the original list, M
will appear before N in the sorted list. Freezing algorithm
being data dependent is a stable algorithm.
7. COMPARISON
When compared the proposed algorithm with recently used
as well as enhanced algorithms, it has been found that the
freezing algorithm shows the best results. The two tables
below shows the comparisons of the number of swaps and
complexities of different sorting algorithms with the
freezing algorithm.
Table 1-Comparison with recently used algorithms

Freezing
Sort
Bubble
Sort
Selection
Sort
Insertion
Sort[12]
Best Case
Complexity

O(n)

O(n
2
)

O(n
2
)

O(n)
Average
Case
Complexity

O(n)

O(n
2
)

O(n
2
)

O(n
2
)
Worst
Case
Complexity

O(n
2
)

O(n
2
)

O(n
2
)

O(n
2
)
Number of
Swaps

0,n/2 or
(n-1)/2

0,n/2,n

Always n

Table 2: Comparison with Enhanced algorithms
Freezing
Algorithm
Enhanced
Selection
Sort
Enhancd
Bubble
Sort
Best Case
Complexity

O(n)

O(n
2
)

O(nlogn)
Average Case
Complexity

O(n)

O(n
2
)

O(nlogn)
Worst Case
Complexity

O(n
2
)

O(n
2
)

O(nlogn)
Number of Swaps
0,n/2 or (n-
1)/2

Depends on
data:0,n/2
or n

Always
n/2
Here we can also present the efficiency of Freezing sort by
showing the number of comparisons in average case for
equal number of elements with the help of graphs also:

Figure1: Comparisons in Freezing Sort

Figure2: Number of Comparisons in Bubble Sort,
Insertion Sort, Selection Sort
8. CONCLUSION
From the results in Table 1 and 2 and Figure1 and Figure2,
freezing algorithm is very good in average case as it
reduces the number of comparisons as well as number of
swaps in comparison to the other algorithms. It is basically
an enhancement to bubble sort as it always compare two
elements at a time like bubble sort. The implication of
these is that the proposed algorithm is faster and therefore,
more efficient.
The Freezing Algorithm has been compared with recently
used as well as enhanced algorithms and it has been found
that the freezing algorithm shows the best results.
9. ACKNOWLEDGMENT
I would like to thank my mentor, Mr. Parveen Kumar for
providing support and material related to the area of this
research, and for his suggestions and helpful comments. I
am thankful to all of my friends and colleagues who have
extended their helping hand in one way or another and
provided several valuable suggestions. I am also thankful
to all those who appreciated this work and provided me a
boost to think and to work more effectively in this area of
sorting.
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