Three pharmaceutical companies have developed algorithms for manufacturing efficacious vaccine for COVID-19 pandemic. World Health Organization has engaged you as a Consultant to analyze those...

Three pharmaceutical companies have developed algorithms
for manufacturing efficacious vaccine for COVID-19
pandemic. World Health Organization has engaged you as a
Consultant to analyze those algorithms; and you intend to
use Big-O notation for that task.
(i). Discuss, in detail, what you will do on this assignment (using
the Big-O notation).
(ii). Make a cogent assessment of the relevance of using Big-O
notation in analyzing the three pharmaceutical
companies’ algorithms.

Two Level 200 IT students, James and Mary, are discussing
how to compare two algorithms for solving a given
problem. James suggests that they should use the
execution times of the algorithms as criterion; but Mary
insists that they should use the number of statements the
algorithms execute as criterion.
(i). Explain the reasons why both criteria they are
considering are not good for comparing algorithms.
(ii). What ideal solution/criterion would you recommend
to them to use for comparing algorithms? Explain your
answer with a practical example.

Programmers and data analysts frequently use Arrays and
ArrayLists in their work. Alitaba Insurance Company uses singlylinked lists to keep track of customers that its salesmen have
won for the company.
(i). Critically compare and contrast Arrays and ArrayLists in the
context of data structures that organizations use to store
data in their databases and data marts.
(ii). Describe the kinds of data that the following types of
organizations may store using Arrays and those that they
can store using ArrayLists:
(α) a telecommunication’s firm
(β) a manufacturing firm
(iii). In your own words, describe how Alitaba Insurance
Company can use singly-linked lists to keep track of
customers that its salesmen have won for the company;
and draw a suitable diagram (with hypothetical data) to
illustrate your answer.