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We consider string matching with variable length gaps. Given a string $T$ and a pattern $P$ consisting of strings separated by variable length gaps (arbitrary strings of length in a specified range), the problem is to find all ending…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-10-14 Philip Bille , Inge Li Goertz , Hjalte Wedel Vildhøj , David Kofoed Wind

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

The circular dictionary matching problem is an extension of the classical dictionary matching problem where every string in the dictionary is interpreted as a circular string: after reading the last character of a string, we can move back…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Nicola Cotumaccio

The classical pattern matching asks for locating all occurrences of one string, called the pattern, in another, called the text, where a string is simply a sequence of characters. Due to the potential practical applications, it is desirable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Jonas Ellert , Paweł Gawrychowski , Adam Górkiewicz , Tatiana Starikovskaya

String matching is the problem of finding all the occurrences of a pattern in a text. We propose improved versions of the fast family of string matching algorithms based on hashing $q$-grams. The improvement consists of considering minimal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Thierry Lecroq

Cartesian tree pattern matching consists of finding all the factors of a text that have the same Cartesian tree than a given pattern. There already exist theoretical and practical solutions for the exact case. In this paper, we propose the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Bastien Auvray , Julien David , Samah Ghazawi , Richard Groult , Gad M. Landau , Thierry Lecroq

String matching is the problem of finding all the substrings of a text which match a given pattern. It is one of the most investigated problems in computer science, mainly due to its very diverse applications in several fields. Recently,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Domenico Cantone , Simone Faro , Arianna Pavone

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

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

Given a pattern x of length m and a text y of length n, both over an ordered alphabet, the order-preserving pattern matching problem consists in finding all substrings of the text with the same relative order as the pattern. It is an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-19 Simone Faro , Oğuzhan Külekci

The decades-old Pattern Matching with Edits problem, given a length-$n$ string $T$ (the text), a length-$m$ string $P$ (the pattern), and a positive integer $k$ (the threshold), asks to list all fragments of $T$ that are at edit distance at…

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

We study the fundamental problem of finding the best string to represent a given set, in the form of the Closest String problem: Given a set $X \subseteq \Sigma^d$ of $n$ strings, find the string $x^*$ minimizing the radius of the smallest…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Amir Abboud , Nick Fischer , Elazar Goldenberg , Karthik C. S. , Ron Safier

In this short note we present a comprehensive bibliography for the online exact string matching problem. The problem consists in finding all occurrences of a given pattern in a text. It is an extensively studied problem in computer science,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-18 Simone Faro

Described are two algorithms to find long approximate palindromes in a string, for example a DNA sequence. A simple algorithm requires O(n)-space and almost always runs in $O(k.n)$-time where n is the length of the string and k is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 L. Allison

We introduce the natural notion of a matching frame in a $2$-dimensional string. A matching frame in a $2$-dimensional $n\times m$ string $M$, is a rectangle such that the strings written on the horizontal sides of the rectangle are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Itai Boneh , Dvir Fried , Shay Golan , Matan Kraus , Adrian Miclaus , Arseny Shur

The Cartesian tree of a sequence captures the relative order of the sequence's elements. In recent years, Cartesian tree matching has attracted considerable attention, particularly due to its applications in time series analysis. Consider a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Panagiotis Charalampopoulos , Jonas Ellert , Manal Mohamed

Motivated by the imminent growth of massive, highly redundant genomic databases, we study the problem of compressing a string database while simultaneously supporting fast random access, substring extraction and pattern matching to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-11-01 Travis Gagie , Paweł Gawrychowski , Christopher Hoobin , Simon J. Puglisi

In many applications, it is necessary to determine the string similarity. Edit distance[WF74] approach is a classic method to determine Field Similarity. A well known dynamic programming algorithm [GUS97] is used to calculate edit distance…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Qi Xiao Yang , Sung Sam Yuan , Lu Chun , Li Zhao , Sun Peng

We present a near-linear time algorithm that approximates the edit distance between two strings within a polylogarithmic factor; specifically, for strings of length n and every fixed epsilon>0, it can compute a (log n)^O(1/epsilon)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-05-24 Alexandr Andoni , Robert Krauthgamer , Krzysztof Onak

In the $k$-mismatch problem, given a pattern and a text of length $n$ and $m$ respectively, we have to find if the text has a sub-string with a Hamming distance of at most $k$ from the pattern. This has been studied in the classical setting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Ruhan Habib , Shadman Shahriar