uptree
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]uptree (not comparable)
- (computing theory) Higher in a tree data structure.
- Antonym: downtree
Noun
[edit]uptree (plural uptrees)
- (computing theory) A subtree of a tree data structure that is rooted at a child of the current node (where the root node is considered to be the bottom of a tree).
- 1986, Wei-Tek Tsai, Control and Management of Large and Dynamic Networks, page 73:
- The principal idea of [JAF 82] is that nodes do not start to update their routing table until all nodes in uptrees are notified.
- 2006, Association for Computing Machinery, Twenty-fifth ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, page 241:
- The maximum number of such left or right up-trees that we could scan is O(log N).