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This paper addresses the problem of identifying palindromic factors in texts that include wildcards -- special characters that match all others. These symbols challenge many classical algorithms, as numerous combinatorial properties are not…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Amihood Amir , Ayelet Butman , Michael Itzhaki , Dina Sokol

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

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 consider computing the longest palindrome in a text of length $n$ in the streaming model, where the characters arrive one-by-one, and we do not have random access to the input. While computing the answer exactly using sublinear memory is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-08 Paweł Gawrychowski , Przemysław Uznański

In this work, we tackle a natural variation of the String Matching Problem on the case of a dynamic pattern, that is, given a static text $T$ and a pattern $P$, we want to support character additions and deletions to the pattern, and after…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Bruno Monteiro , Vinicius dos Santos

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

We present space lower bounds for online pattern matching under a number of different distance measures. Given a pattern of length m and a text that arrives one character at a time, the online pattern matching problem is to report the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-06-23 Raphael Clifford , Markus Jalsenius , Ely Porat , Benjamin Sach

We consider the streaming complexity of a fundamental task in approximate pattern matching: the $k$-mismatch problem. It asks to compute Hamming distances between a pattern of length $n$ and all length-$n$ substrings of a text for which the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Raphaël Clifford , Tomasz Kociumaka , Ely Porat

We study the fully dynamic pattern matching problem where the pattern may contain up to kwildcard symbols, each matching any symbol of the alphabet. Both the text and the pattern are subject to updates (insert, delete, change). We design an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Arshia Ataee Naeini , Amir-Parsa Mobed , Masoud Seddighin , Saeed Seddighin

In the problem of $\texttt{Generalised Pattern Matching}\ (\texttt{GPM})$ [STOC'94, Muthukrishnan and Palem], we are given a text $T$ of length $n$ over an alphabet $\Sigma_T$, a pattern $P$ of length $m$ over an alphabet $\Sigma_P$, and a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Bartłomiej Dudek , Paweł Gawrychowski , Tatiana Starikovskaya

We present a new streaming algorithm for the $k$-Mismatch problem, one of the most basic problems in pattern matching. Given a pattern and a text, the task is to find all substrings of the text that are at the Hamming distance at most $k$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Jakub Radoszewski , Tatiana Starikovskaya

We revisit the complexity of one of the most basic problems in pattern matching. In the k-mismatch problem we must compute the Hamming distance between a pattern of length m and every m-length substring of a text of length n, as long as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-08-28 Raphaël Clifford , Allyx Fontaine , Ely Porat , Benjamin Sach , Tatiana Starikovskaya

Searching for all occurrences of a pattern in a text is a fundamental problem in computer science with applications in many other fields, like natural language processing, information retrieval and computational biology. In the last two…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-10-01 Simone Faro , M. Oguzhan Külekci

Searching for all occurrences of a pattern in a text is a fundamental problem in computer science with applications in many other fields, like natural language processing, information retrieval and computational biology. Sampled string…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Simone Faro , Arianna Pavone , Francesco Pio Marino

We consider the problem of pattern matching with $k$ mismatches, where there can be don't care or wild card characters in the pattern. Specifically, given a pattern $P$ of length $m$ and a text $T$ of length $n$, we want to find all…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Marius Nicolae , Sanguthevar Rajasekaran

Analyzing patterns in data streams generated by network traffic, sensor networks, or satellite feeds is a challenge for systems in which the available storage is limited. In addition, real data is noisy, which makes designing data stream…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Elena Grigorescu , Erfan Sadeqi Azer , Samson Zhou

We study the complexity of the following problems in the streaming model. Membership testing for \DLIN We show that every language in \DLIN\ can be recognised by a randomized one-pass $O(\log n)$ space algorithm with inverse polynomial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-04-06 Ajesh Babu , Nutan Limaye , Jaikumar Radhakrishnan , Girish Varma

We study the communication complexity and streaming complexity of approximating unweighted semi-matchings. A semi-matching in a bipartite graph G = (A, B, E), with n = |A|, is a subset of edges S that matches all A vertices to B vertices…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-26 Christian Konrad , Adi Rosén

In this work, we revisit the fundamental and well-studied problem of approximate pattern matching under edit distance. Given an integer $k$, a pattern $P$ of length $m$, and a text $T$ of length $n \ge m$, the task is to find substrings of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Tomasz Kociumaka , Ely Porat , Tatiana Starikovskaya

Many problems on data streams have been studied at two extremes of difficulty: either allowing randomized algorithms, in the static setting (where they should err with bounded probability on the worst case stream); or when only…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Manuel Stoeckl