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The {\em longest common subsequence (LCS)} problem is a classic and well-studied problem in computer science. LCS is a central problem in stringology and finds broad applications in text compression, error-detecting codes and biological…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-04-20 Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury , Masud Hasan , Sumaiya Iqbal , M. Sohel Rahman

In this paper, we revisit the much studied LCS problem for two given sequences. Based on the algorithm of Iliopoulos and Rahman for solving the LCS problem, we have suggested 3 new improved algorithms. We first reformulate the problem in a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-08-25 Daxin Zhu , Lei Wang , Yingjie Wu , Xiaodong Wang

The {\em longest common subsequence (LCS)} problem is a classic and well-studied problem in computer science. Palindrome is a word which reads the same forward as it does backward. The {\em longest common palindromic subsequence (LCPS)}…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-10-25 Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury , Md. Mahbubul Hasan , Sumaiya Iqbal , M. Sohel Rahman

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

Non-parametric entropy estimation on sequential data is a fundamental tool in signal processing, capturing information flow within or between processes to measure predictability, redundancy, or similarity. Methods based on longest common…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Bridget Smart , Max Ward , Matthew Roughan

The problem of finding a longest common subsequence of two main sequences with some constraint that must be a substring of the result (STR-IC-LCS) was formulated recently. It is a variant of the constrained longest common subsequence…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-07-01 Sebastian Deorowicz

Longest Common Substring (LCS) is an important text processing problem, which has recently been investigated in the quantum query model. The decisional version of this problem, LCS with threshold $d$, asks whether two length-$n$ input…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Ce Jin , Jakob Nogler

Longest common substring (LCS), longest palindrome substring (LPS), and Ulam distance (UL) are three fundamental string problems that can be classically solved in near linear time. In this work, we present sublinear time quantum algorithms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-29 François Le Gall , Saeed Seddighin

In this work, we consider a variant of the classical Longest Common Subsequence problem called Doubly-Constrained Longest Common Subsequence (DC-LCS). Given two strings s1 and s2 over an alphabet A, a set C_s of strings, and a function Co…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-20 Paola Bonizzoni , Gianluca Della Vedova , Riccardo Dondi , Yuri Pirola

This study develops an algorithm to solve a variation of the Shortest Common Superstring (SCS) problem. There are two modifications to the base SCS problem. First, one string in the set S is allowed to have up to K mistakes, defined as not…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Arthur Gilfanov

Finding an Approximate Longest Common Substring (ALCS) within a given set $S=\{s_1,s_2,\ldots,s_m\}$ of $m \ge 2$ strings is a key problem in computational biology, such as identifying related mutations across multiple genetic sequences. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Hamed Hasibi , Neerja Mhaskar , W. F. Smyth

We study sketching and streaming algorithms for the Longest Common Subsequence problem (LCS) on strings of small alphabet size $|\Sigma|$. For the problem of deciding whether the LCS of strings $x,y$ has length at least $L$, we obtain a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Karl Bringmann , Bhaskar Ray Chaudhury

The Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) problem is a fundamental problem of sequence comparison. A natural approximation to this problem is a model in which every pairs of letters of two ``sequences'' are matched independently of the other…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-08-31 J. Boutet de Monvel

One of the most critical problems in the field of string algorithms is the longest common subsequence problem (LCS). The problem is NP-hard for an arbitrary number of strings but can be solved in polynomial time for a fixed number of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Soroush Vahidi , Baruch Schieber , Zhihui Du , David A. Bader

This paper addresses the Restricted Longest Common Subsequence (RLCS) problem, an extension of the well-known Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) problem. This problem has significant applications in bioinformatics, particularly for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Marko Djukanović , Jaume Reixach , Ana Nikolikj , Tome Eftimov , Aleksandar Kartelj , Christian Blum

The longest common subsequence (LCS) is a fundamental problem in string processing which has numerous algorithmic studies, extensions, and applications. A sequence $u_1, \ldots, u_f$ of $f$ strings s said to be an ($f$-)segmentation of a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Yuki Yonemoto , Takuya Mieno , Shunsuke Inenaga , Ryo Yoshinaka , Ayumi Shinohara

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

The Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) problem is a very important problem in math- ematics, which has a broad application in scheduling problems, physics and bioinformatics. It is known that the given two random sequences of infinite…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-06-19 Kang Ning , Kwok Pui Choi

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 problem of finding longest common subsequence (LCS) is one of the fundamental problems in computer science, which finds application in fields such as computational biology, text processing, information retrieval, data compression etc.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Amey Bhangale , Diptarka Chakraborty , Rajendra Kumar