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The setting for the online transportation problem is a metric space $M$, populated by $m$ parking garages of varying capacities. Over time cars arrive in $M$, and must be irrevocably assigned to a parking garage upon arrival in a way that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Stephen Arndt , Benjamin Moseley , Kirk Pruhs , Marc Uetz

We consider the problem of encoding two-dimensional arrays, whose elements come from a total order, for answering \topk{} queries. The aim is to obtain encodings that use space close to the information-theoretic lower bound, which can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Seungbum Jo , Srinivasa Rao Satti

In this paper, we study two variants of the online metric matching problem. The first problem is the online metric matching problem where all the servers are placed at one of two positions in the metric space. We show that a simple greedy…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Toshiya Itoh , Shuichi Miyazaki , Makoto Satake

The edit distance is a way of quantifying how similar two strings are to one another by counting the minimum number of character insertions, deletions, and substitutions required to transform one string into the other. A simple dynamic…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Elazar Goldenberg , Robert Krauthgamer , Barna Saha

Approximate Pattern Matching is among the most fundamental string-processing tasks. Given a text $T$ of length $n$, a pattern $P$ of length $m$, and a threshold $k$, the task is to identify the fragments of $T$ that are at distance at most…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Tomasz Kociumaka , Jakob Nogler , Philip Wellnitz

The classic exact pattern matching problem, given two strings -- a pattern $P$ of length $m$ and a text $T$ of length $n$ -- asks whether $P$ occurs as a substring of $T$. A property tester for the problem needs to distinguish (with high…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Ce Jin , Tomasz Kociumaka

In this paper we study lower bounds for the fundamental problem of text indexing with mismatches and differences. In this problem we are given a long string of length $n$, the "text", and the task is to preprocess it into a data structure…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Laurent Feuilloley , Tatiana Starikovskaya

Upper bounds on the maximum number of codewords in a binary code of a given length and minimum Hamming distance are considered. New bounds are derived by a combination of linear programming and counting arguments. Some of these bounds…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Beniamin Mounits , Tuvi Etzion , Simon Litsyn

Low-distortional metric embeddings are a crucial component in the modern algorithmic toolkit. In an online metric embedding, points arrive sequentially and the goal is to embed them into a simple space irrevocably, while minimizing the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Sujoy Bhore , Arnold Filtser , Csaba D. Tóth

Two strings are considered to have parameterized matching when there exists a bijection of the parameterized alphabet onto itself such that it transforms one string to another. Parameterized matching has application in software duplication…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Apurba Saha , Iftekhar Hakim Kaowsar , Mahdi Hasnat Siyam , M. Sohel Rahman

We show an improved lower bound for the Fp estimation problem in a data stream setting for p>2. A data stream is a sequence of items from the domain [n] with possible repetitions. The frequency vector x is an n-dimensional non-negative…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Sumit Ganguly

We present an efficient algorithm for finding all approximate occurrences of a given pattern $p$ of length $m$ in a text $t$ of length $n$ allowing for translocations of equal length adjacent factors and inversions of factors. The algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-05-09 Szymon Grabowski , Simone Faro , Emanuele Giaquinta

String matching is the problem of deciding whether a given $n$-bit string contains a given $k$-bit pattern. We study the complexity of this problem in three settings. Communication complexity. For small $k$, we provide near-optimal upper…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Alexander Golovnev , Mika Göös , Daniel Reichman , Igor Shinkar

We prove an optimal $\Omega(n)$ lower bound on the randomized communication complexity of the much-studied Gap-Hamming-Distance problem. As a consequence, we obtain essentially optimal multi-pass space lower bounds in the data stream model…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-07-02 Amit Chakrabarti , Oded Regev

We study the Closest Pair Problem in Hamming metric, which asks to find the pair with the smallest Hamming distance in a collection of binary vectors. We give a new randomized algorithm for the problem on uniformly random input…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Andre Esser , Robert Kübler , Floyd Zweydinger

We present an online algorithm to deal with pattern matching in strings. The problem we investigate is commonly known as string matching with mismatches in which the objective is to report the number of characters that match when a pattern…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-11 Vinodprasad P

Optical orthogonal signature pattern codes (OOSPCs) have attracted wide attention as signature patterns of spatial optical code division multiple access networks. In this paper, an improved upper bound on the size of an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Rong Pan , Tao Feng , Lidong Wang , Xiaomiao Wang

Online string matching is a computational problem involving the search for patterns or substrings in a large text dataset, with the pattern and text being processed sequentially, without prior access to the entire text. Its relevance stems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Matthew N. Palmer , Simone Faro , Stefano Scafiti

We consider the problem of finding a minimum cut of a weighted graph presented as a single-pass stream. While graph sparsification in streams has been intensively studied, the specific application of finding minimum cuts in streams is less…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Matthew Ding , Alexandro Garces , Jason Li , Honghao Lin , Jelani Nelson , Vihan Shah , David P. Woodruff

In the Online Machine Covering problem jobs, defined by their sizes, arrive one by one and have to be assigned to $m$ parallel and identical machines, with the goal of maximizing the load of the least-loaded machine. In this work, we study…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Susanne Albers , Waldo Gálvez , Maximilian Janke