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In this paper, we consider a generalized longest common subsequence problem, in which a constraining sequence of length $s$ must be included as a substring and the other constraining sequence of length $t$ must be excluded as a subsequence…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Daxin Zhu , Lei Wang , Yingjie Wu , Xiaodong Wang

Two important similarity measures between sequences are the longest common subsequence (LCS) and the dynamic time warping distance (DTWD). The computations of these measures for two given sequences are central tasks in a variety of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-02-02 Amir Abboud , Arturs Backurs , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

Let $X_1, X_2, ..., X_s$ and $Y_1, Y_2, ..., Y_t$ be strings over an alphabet $\Sigma$, where $s$ and $t$ are positive integers. The longest common subsequence and substring problem for multiple strings $X_1, X_2, ..., X_s$ and $Y_1, Y_2,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Rao Li

We investigate the asymptotic standard deviation of the Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) of two independent i.i.d. sequences of length n. The first sequence is drawn from a three letter alphabet {0,1,a}, whilst the second sequence is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 F. Bonetto , H. Matzinger

We consider the canonical generalization of the well-studied Longest Increasing Subsequence problem to multiple sequences, called $k$-LCIS: Given $k$ integer sequences $X_1,\dots,X_k$ of length at most $n$, the task is to determine the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Lech Duraj , Marvin Künnemann , Adam Polak

Two strings of the same length are said to Cartesian-tree match (CT-match) if their Cartesian-trees are isomorphic [Park et al., TCS 2020]. Cartesian-tree matching is a natural model that allows for capturing similarities of numerical…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Taketo Tsujimoto , Yuki Yonemoto , Hiroki Shibata , Takuya Mieno , Yuto Nakashima , Shunsuke Inenaga

Consider two random strings having the same length and generated by an iid sequence taking its values uniformly in a fixed finite alphabet. Artificially place a long constant block into one of the strings, where a constant block is a…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-01-31 S. Amsalu , C. Houdré , H. Matzinger

Given $m$ documents of total length $n$, we consider the problem of finding a longest string common to at least $d \geq 2$ of the documents. This problem is known as the \emph{longest common substring (LCS) problem} and has a classic $O(n)$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-03 Tomasz Kociumaka , Tatiana Starikovskaya , Hjalte Wedel Vildhøj

We consider the problem of finding, given two documents of total length $n$, a longest string occurring as a substring of both documents. This problem, known as the Longest Common Substring (LCS) problem, has a classic $O(n)$-time solution…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Stav Ben-Nun , Shay Golan , Tomasz Kociumaka , Matan Kraus

In the classic longest common substring (LCS) problem, we are given two strings $S$ and $T$, each of length at most $n$, over an alphabet of size $\sigma$, and we are asked to find a longest string occurring as a fragment of both $S$ and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Panagiotis Charalampopoulos , Tomasz Kociumaka , Jakub Radoszewski , Solon P. Pissis

The nature of the alignment with gaps corresponding to a longest common subsequence (LCS) of two independent iid random sequences drawn from a finite alphabet is investigated. It is shown that such an optimal alignment typically matches…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-04-22 C. Houdré , H. Matzinger

Given several number sequences, determining the longest common subsequence is a classical problem in computer science. This problem has applications in bioinformatics, especially determining transposable genes. Nevertheless, related works…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-21 Yue Wang

Suppose we want to seek the longest common subsequences (LCSs) of two strings as informative patterns that explain the relationship between the strings. The dynamic programming algorithm gives us a table from which all LCSs can be extracted…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Yoshifumi Sakai

The problem of finding a center string that is `close' to every given string arises and has many applications in computational biology and coding theory. This problem has two versions: the Closest String problem and the Closest Substring…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ming Li , Bin Ma , Lusheng Wang

The longest common extension problem is to preprocess a given string of length $n$ into a data structure that uses $S(n)$ bits on top of the input and answers in $T(n)$ time the queries $\mathit{LCE}(i,j)$ computing the length of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Dmitry Kosolobov

For a set of mulitple sequences, their patterns,Longest Common Subsequences (LCS) and Shortest Common Supersequences (SCS) represent different aspects of these sequences profile, and they can all be used for biological sequence comparisons…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Kang Ning , Hoong Kee Ng , Hon Wai Leong

A longest common extension (LCE) query on a string computes the length of the longest common suffix or prefix at two given positions. A dynamic LCE algorithm maintains a data structure that allows efficient LCE queries on a string that can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Daniel Albert

Maximal Common Subsequences (MCSs) between two strings X and Y are subsequences of both X and Y that are maximal under inclusion. MCSs relax and generalize the well known and widely used concept of Longest Common Subsequences (LCSs), which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Alessio Conte , Roberto Grossi , Giulia Punzi , Takeaki Uno

The length of the longest common subsequences (LCSs) is often used as a similarity measurement to compare two (or more) random words. Below we study its statistical behavior in mean and variance using a Monte-Carlo approach from which we…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-05-22 Qingqing Liu , Christian Houdré

In this paper we present $LCSk$++: a new metric for measuring the similarity of long strings, and provide an algorithm for its efficient computation. With ever increasing size of strings occuring in practice, e.g. large genomes of plants…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Filip Pavetić , Goran Žužić , Mile Šikić