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A Review on the Tree Edit Distance Problem and Related Path-Decomposition Algorithms

Data Structures and Algorithms 2015-02-10 v6 Computational Complexity Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

An ordered labeled tree is a tree in which the nodes are labeled and the left-to-right order among siblings is relevant. The edit distance between two ordered labeled trees is the minimum cost of changing one tree into the other through a sequence of edit steps. In the literature, there are a class of algorithms based on different yet closely related path-decomposition schemes. This article reviews the principles of these algorithms, and studies the concepts related to the algorithmic complexities as a consequence of the decomposition schemes.

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@article{arxiv.1501.00611,
  title  = {A Review on the Tree Edit Distance Problem and Related Path-Decomposition Algorithms},
  author = {Shihyen Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.00611},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

23 pages. 13 figures. Revisions: minor changes

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