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Outline and Reading
The Stack ADT (§2.1.1)
Array-based implementation (§2.1.1)
Growable array-based stack (§1.5)
Java.util.Stack class
Java.util.Vector
Applications for Stack
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Abstract Data Types (ADTs)
An abstract data type (ADT) is an abstraction of a data structure
An ADT specifies:
 Data stored
 Operations on the data
 Error conditions associated with operations
Example: ADT modeling a simple stock trading system
 The data stored are buy/sell orders
 The operations supported are
 order buy(stock, shares, price)
 order sell(stock, shares, price)
 void cancel(order)
 Error conditions:
 Buy/sell a nonexistent stock
 Cancel a nonexistent order
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The Stack ADT
The Stack ADT stores arbitrary objects
Stack follows Last In First Out (LIFO) discipline. That is,
insertions and deletions follow the last-in first-out scheme
Think of a spring-loaded plate dispenser
Main stack operations:
 push(object): inserts an element
 object pop(): removes and returns the last inserted element
Auxiliary stack operations:
 object top(): returns the last inserted element without
removing it
 integer size(): returns the number of elements stored
 boolean isEmpty(): indicates whether no elements are stored
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Handling Exceptions/Error
Conditions
Attempting the execution of an operation of
ADT may sometimes cause an error
condition, called an exception
Exceptions are said to be “thrown” by an
operation that cannot be executed
In the Stack ADT, operations pop and top
cannot be performed if the stack is empty
Attempting the execution of pop or top on an
empty stack throws an EmptyStackException
We will look into Java exception handling in
the next week.
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Applications of Stacks
Page-visited history in a Web browser
Undo sequence in a text editor
Every process in computer system has a
user stack to maintain its context.
The subroutine/method call structure is
maintained in a LIFO basis.
Auxiliary data structure for algorithms
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Array-based Stack
A simple way of
implementing the
Stack ADT uses an
array
We add elements
from left to right
A variable keeps
track of the index of
the top element
Algorithm size()
return t + 1
Algorithm pop()
if isEmpty() then
throw EmptyStackException
else
tt1
return S[t + 1]
…
S
0 1 2
t
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Array-based Stack (cont.)
The array storing the
stack elements may
become full
A push operation will
then throw a
FullStackException
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Algorithm push(o)
if t = S.length  1 then
throw FullStackException
else
tt+1
Limitation of the arrayS[t]  o
based implementation
Not intrinsic to the
Stack ADT
…
S
0 1 2
t
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Performance and Limitations
Performance
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Let n be the number of elements in the stack
The space used is O(n)
Each operation runs in time O(1)
Limitations
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The maximum size of the stack must be defined a
priori and cannot be changed
Trying to push a new element into a full stack
causes an implementation-specific exception
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Growable Array-based Stack
In a push operation, when
the array is full, instead of
throwing an exception, we
can replace the array with
a larger one
How large should the new
array be?
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incremental strategy:
increase the size by a
constant c; O(n) for push
operations
doubling strategy: double
the size; O(1) for push
operation
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Algorithm push(o)
if t = S.length  1 then
A  new array of
size …
for i  0 to t do
A[i]  S[i]
SA
tt+1
S[t]  o
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Stack Interface in Java
Java interface
corresponding to
our Stack ADT
Requires the
definition of class
EmptyStackException
Different from the
built-in Java class
java.util.Stack
We will look at
exceptions later.
public interface StackInterface {
public int size();
public boolean empty();
public Object top()
throws EmptyStackException;
public void push(Object o);
public Object pop()
throws EmptyStackException;
}
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Array-based Stack in Java
public class ArrayStack implements
StackInterface
{
private Object[] _items;
private int top = -1;
private int capacity = 20;
public ArrayStack ()
{
_items = new Object[capacity];
}
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Push and other methods
public int size()
{ return top +1;}
public boolean isEmpty()
{ return (top < 0);}
public void push(Object obj)
{
if (top == _items.length -1)
{ // ASSERT: stack capacity full
Object[] tmp = new Object[2*length];
for (int i= 0; i< _items.length; i++)
tmp [i] = _items[i];
_items = tmp;
top++; capacity = capacity*2;
_items[top] = obj;
}
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Pop and top method
public Object top()
{
if (empty() )
{ System.out.println(“empty”);
return null; }
else return _items[top]);
}
public Object pop()
{
if (empty() )
{ System.out.println(“empty”);
return null; }
else
{ Object elem = _items[top]);
top = top –1;
}
return elem;
}
}
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Stack Class Hierarchy
AbstractList
extends
java.util.Vector Vector
implements
List, Cloneable,
Serializable
extends
Java.util.Stack Stack
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Stack Class Diagram
Stack
//constructor
Stack()
//methods
Object push(Object item)
Object pop()
Object peek()
int search(Object o)
//predicate method
boolean empty()
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java.util.Vector
Vector
Vector() // constructor
boolean addElement(Object obj); // add to the end
Object elementAt(int index); //return element at index, accessor
int size();
boolean isEmpty()
Object remove (int index); // remove element at index: mutator
Object lastElement(); // accessor
String toString();
Object[] toArray();
//other methods
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Java.util.Stack
Lets see how easy it is to reuse java.util.Vector
to implement a Stack
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