A priority queue is a data structure that holds information that has some sort of priority value. When an item is removed from a priority queue, it's always the item with the highest priority.

We examine whether priority queues benefit or hurt customers in a setting in which customers are privately informed of their per-unit-time waiting cost. Implementing a priority queue thus means ...

A priority queue assigns a priority to each element. Knowing how to build them is important in solving many coding problems. A priority queue is a data structure that holds information that has some ...