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Summary

  • The initial submission of this article was received on October 26th, 2020 and was peer-reviewed by 2 reviewers and the Academic Editor.
  • The Academic Editor made their initial decision on November 27th, 2020.
  • The first revision was submitted on December 12th, 2020 and was reviewed by 2 reviewers and the Academic Editor.
  • The article was Accepted by the Academic Editor on December 17th, 2020.

Version 0.2 (accepted)

· Dec 17, 2020 · Academic Editor

Accept

The revision process is now finished and independent Reviewers recommend your paper for further processing, therefore I am pleased to forward your paper to the editorial office with a positive recommendation.

Reviewer 1 ·

Basic reporting

The authors took into account my suggestions in the article so I have no objections.

Experimental design

Everything is fine.

Validity of the findings

I have no objections.

Additional comments

In my opinion, the article should be accepted.

Reviewer 2 ·

Basic reporting

Thank you for taking my comments into account, the current version of the paper is, in my opinion, ready to be accepted.

Experimental design

The experimental design has no significant flaws.

Validity of the findings

The validity of the findings has no significant flaws.

Version 0.1 (original submission)

· Nov 27, 2020 · Academic Editor

Minor Revisions

Dear Authors, Reviewers suggest changes to your paper by solving important issues. Please revise it and return to us with revisions for further processing.

Reviewer 1 ·

Basic reporting

The article is written carefully, but I think there are some corrections that can be made. Figure 2 is very good, but the blocks (A,B,C,D,E) could be marked with soft rectangles.
In the caption of Fig 2 you write "(e)" but I thing should be "(E)"
Adapt the size of figures and tables to the size of the pages.
The equations (6),(7), (9), (10) and (11) are the same. Similarly, the equation (13), (14), (16-19) are also the same. In both cases define the formula only once and note that the other probabilities are equal.

Experimental design

The authors of the article provide an interesting proposal for a sorting algorithm for streaming data on a uniprocessor constrained by a limited storage size. In my opinion, the article can be accepted after editorial corrections.

Validity of the findings

The article is clearly written and transparent so I have no critical comments.

Additional comments

Do you see any possibilities to improve this algorithm?
List possible practical applications of this algorithm when it is better than others.

Reviewer 2 ·

Basic reporting

The article prepared by the authors is professionally written and presented in a good way. I recommend only small changes to improve the transparency of the article and to show the advantages of the created solution.

Experimental design

The design of the experiment does not contain any major errors.

Validity of the findings

This article does not compare enough with other similar solutions to this problem invented by other researchers. Such a comparison should be made, the preferred form is a table, which clearly shows the differences between the responses to this issue.

Additional comments

-Equation (15) needs better formatting.
- All fractions in the text should be changed to the correct way of notation (not containing slash). An example of this is in line 371.
-Figure no. 2 needs to be in higher quality.
- Equations no. (2), (3), (4) should be centered.
-The legends of the graphs in figure 3 must be enlarged or deleted otherwise they are very illegible.

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