[Solved] PROLOG Assignment4-Permutation, Combination and Sorting

Write Prolog programs for the following.

1. Remove the Kth element from a list. Example:

?- remove_at(X,[a,b,c,d],2,R).

{X = b, R = [a,c,d]}

2. Extract a given number of randomly selected elements from a list.

The selected items shall be put into a result list.

Example:

?- rnd_select([a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h],3,L).

{L = [e,d,a]}

Hint: Use the built-in random number generator random/2 and the result of problem P1.

3. Generate a random permutation of the elements of a list.

Example:

?- rnd_permu([a,b,c,d,e,f],L).

{L = [b,a,d,c,e,f]}

Hint: Use the solution of problem P2.

4. Generate the combinations of K distinct objects chosen from the N elements of a list

In how many ways can a committee of 3 be chosen from a group of 12 people? We all know that there are C(12,3) = 220 possibilities (C(N,K) denotes the well-known binomial coefficients). For pure mathematicians, this result may be great. But we want to really generate all the possibilities (via backtracking).

Example:

?- combination(3,[a,b,c,d,e,f],L).

{L = [a,b,c]} ;

{L = [a,b,d]} ;

{L = [a,b,e]} ;

5. Sorting a list of lists according to length of sublists
   1. We suppose that a list (InList) contains elements that are lists themselves. The objective is to sort the elements of InList according to their length. E.g. short lists first, longer lists later, or vice versa.

Example:

?- lsort([[a,b,c],[d,e],[f,g,h],[d,e],[i,j,k,l],[m,n],[o]],L).

{L = [[o], [d, e], [d, e], [m, n], [a, b, c], [f, g, h], [i, j, k, l]]}

1. Again, we suppose that a list (InList) contains elements that are lists themselves. But this time the objective is to sort the elements of InList according to their length frequency; i.e. in the default, where sorting is done ascendingly, lists with rare lengths are placed first, others with a more frequent length come later.

Example:

?- lfsort([[a,b,c],[d,e],[f,g,h],[d,e],[i,j,k,l],[m,n],[o]],L).

{L = [[i, j, k, l], [o], [a, b, c], [f, g, h], [d, e], [d, e], [m, n]]}

Note that in the above example, the first two lists in the result L have length 4 and 1, both lengths appear just once. The third and forth list have length 3 which appears, there are two list of this length. And finally, the last three lists have length 2. This is the most frequent length.

6. Implement Permutation Sort.
7. Implement Bubble Sort.
8. Implement Selection Sort.
9. Implement Insertion Sort.
10. Implement Merge Sort.
11. Implement Quick Sort using Accumulator.
12. Implement Quick Sort without Accumulator.