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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

Given a set of pattern strings $\mathcal{P}=\{P_1, P_2,\ldots P_k\}$ and a text string $S$, the classic dictionary matching problem is to report all occurrences of each pattern in $S$. We study the dictionary problem in the compressed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Philip Bille , Inge Li Gørtz , Simon J. Puglisi , Simon R. Tarnow

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

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

In this paper we describe compressed indexes that support pattern matching queries for strings with wildcards. For a constant size alphabet our data structure uses $O(n\log^{\varepsilon}n)$ bits for any $\varepsilon>0$ and reports all…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-01-06 Moshe Lewenstein , Yakov Nekrich , Jeffrey Scott Vitter

Multiple string matching is known as locating all the occurrences of a given number of patterns in an arbitrary string. It is used in bio-computing applications where the algorithms are commonly used for retrieval of information such as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-03-07 S. Arudchutha , T. Nishanthy , R. G. Ragel

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

A classical measure of string comparison is given by the longest common subsequence (LCS) problem on a pair of strings. We consider its generalisation, called the semi-local LCS problem, which arises naturally in many string-related…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Alexander Tiskin

Exact string matching has been a fundamental problem in computer science for decades because of many practical applications. Some are related to common procedures, such as searching in files and text editors, or, more recently, to more…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Konstantinos F. Xylogiannopoulos

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

Given a text and a pattern over two types of symbols called constants and variables, the parameterized pattern matching problem is to find all occurrences of substrings of the text that the pattern matches by substituting a variable in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-29 Yuki Igarashi , Diptarama , Ryo Yoshinaka , Ayumi Shinohara

String matching algorithm plays the vital role in the Computational Biology. The functional and structural relationship of the biological sequence is determined by similarities on that sequence. For that, the researcher is supposed to aware…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-01-30 Pandiselvam. P , Marimuthu. T , Lawrance. R

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 indexing a string $t$ of length $n$ to report the occurrences of a query pattern $p$ containing $m$ characters and $j$ wildcards. Let $occ$ be the number of occurrences of $p$ in $t$, and $\sigma$ the size of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-09-07 Philip Bille , Inge Li Goertz , Hjalte Wedel Vildhøj , Søren Vind

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

Given strings $P$ and $Q$ the (exact) string matching problem is to find all positions of substrings in $Q$ matching $P$. The classical Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm [SIAM J. Comput., 1977] solves the string matching problem in linear time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-09-08 Philip Bille

Strings form a fundamental data type in computer systems. String searching has been extensively studied since the inception of computer science. Increasingly many applications have to deal with imprecise strings or strings with fuzzy…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-09-30 Sharma V. Thankachan , Manish Patil , Rahul Shah , Sudip Biswas

Frequent pattern mining is widely used to find ``important'' or ``interesting'' patterns in data. While it is not easy to mathematically define such patterns, maximal frequent patterns are promising candidates, as frequency is a natural…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Giovanni Buzzega , Alessio Conte , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Kazuhiro Kurita , Giulia Punzi

Over the last two decades, frameworks for distributed-memory parallel computation, such as MapReduce, Hadoop, Spark and Dryad, have gained significant popularity with the growing prevalence of large network datasets. The Massively Parallel…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Amartya Shankha Biswas , Talya Eden , Quanquan C. Liu , Slobodan Mitrović , Ronitt Rubinfeld

For over a decade now we have been witnessing the success of {\em massive parallel computation} (MPC) frameworks, such as MapReduce, Hadoop, Dryad, or Spark. One of the reasons for their success is the fact that these frameworks are able to…

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