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A research report in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering Management, School of Engineering and Applied Science, The George Washington University

Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain

To my beloved parents

Acknowledgements

I would like to take this opportunity to thanks my supervisor Prof. X Y. …

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of Tables
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Abstr
Chapter 1. Introduction
1.1 First Section
1.2 Second Section
Chapter 2. Literature Review
2.1 First Section
2.2 Second Section
2.3 Third Section
Chapter 3. An Example of Citation
References

Appendix
Appendix B

List of Tables

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List of Figures

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List of Abbreviations

Abstract

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Chapter 1

Introduction

1.1 First Section

This chapter should be an introduction to your report. If you have written a good research proposal then its content could be put in this chapter. You should introduce your research problem, background, history and motivation, research objectives, research methodology, any limitations or restrictions, and the structure/organization of this research report. The reader should be really motivated to read your next chapters in this report.

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1.2 Second Section

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Chapter 2

Literature Review

2.1 First Section

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2.2 Second Section

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2.3 Third Section

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The next chapter is showing a simple example of correct citation.

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Chapter 3

An example of Citation

In this example we cite some research conducted by others. All references are shown in the references section which is written in IEEE format.

In classical uniform hashing with chaining, a set of s keys is inserted into a hash table with n separate chains (or linked lists) via a uniform hash function. The insertion time is constant, and the average search time is proportional to the load factor of the hash table α := s/n. However, even for a constant load factor, the worst-case search time (the length of the longest chain) is asymptotic to log n/log log n in probability [18, 27].

Azar et al. [3] suggested a novel approach called the greedy two-way chaining paradigm. It uses two independent uniform hash functions to insert the keys, where each key is inserted on-line into the shorter chain, with ties broken randomly. The insertion time is still constant, while the average search time cannot be more than twice the average search time of classical uniform hashing. However, the expected maximum search time is only 2 log2 log n+2α+O(1) [3, 4, 24]. The two-way chaining paradigm has been effectively used to derive many efficient algorithms [5, 6, 7]. A further variant of on-line two-way chaining [28] improves the maximum search time by a constant factor.

On the other hand, one can show that the off-line version of two-way chaining, where all the hashing values of the keys are known in advance, yields better worst-case performance [3, 8, 25]. Czumaj and Stemann [8] proved that if s ≤ 1.67545943 …×n, one can find an assignment for the keys such that the maximum chain length is at most 2 w.h.p. (with high probability, i.e., with probability tending to one as n→∞).

Appendix A: Title of the Appendix

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Appendix B: Title of the Appendix

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