History
The concept of self-organizing lists was introduced by McCabe in 1965. In a pioneering work, he introduced two heuristics- the MTF rule and the transposition rule. Further improvements were made, and algorithms suggested by Ronald Rivest, Tenenbaum and Nemes, D. Knuth and so on.
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