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We study the problem of computing a longest increasing subsequence in a sequence $S$ of $n$ distinct elements in the presence of persistent comparison errors. In this model, every comparison between two elements can return the wrong result…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Barbara Geissmann

In the longest common substring (LCS) problem, we are given two strings $S$ and $T$, each of length at most $n$, and we are asked to find a longest string occurring as a fragment of both $S$ and $T$. This is a classical and well-studied…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Amihood Amir , Panagiotis Charalampopoulos , Solon P. Pissis , Jakub Radoszewski

The constrained LCS problem asks one to find a longest common subsequence of two input strings $A$ and $B$ with some constraints. The STR-IC-LCS problem is a variant of the constrained LCS problem, where the solution must include a given…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Keita Kuboi , Yuta Fujishige , Shunsuke Inenaga , Hideo Bannai , Masayuki Takeda

Finding the longest common subsequence in $k$-length substrings (LCS$k$) is a recently proposed problem motivated by computational biology. This is a generalization of the well-known LCS problem in which matching symbols from two sequences…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-20 Sebastian Deorowicz , Szymon Grabowski

In this paper, we consider two versions of the Text Assembling problem. We are given a sequence of strings $s^1,\dots,s^n$ of total length $L$ that is a dictionary, and a string $t$ of length $m$ that is texts. The first version of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-05 Kamil Khadiev , Carlos Manuel Bosch Machado , Zeyu Chen , Junde Wu

The longest common substring problem consists in finding a longest string that appears as a (contiguous) substring of two input strings. We consider the dynamic variant of this problem, in which we are to maintain two dynamic strings $S$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Panagiotis Charalampopoulos , Paweł Gawrychowski , Karol Pokorski

Calculating the length of a longest common subsequence (LCS) of two strings $A$ and $B$ of length $n$ and $m$ is a classic research topic, with many worst-case oriented results known. We present two algorithms for LCS length calculation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-05-22 Szymon Grabowski

Longest common subsequence (LCS) is one of the most fundamental problems in combinatorial optimization. Apart from theoretical importance, LCS has enormous applications in bioinformatics, revision control systems, and data comparison…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-17 MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Masoud Seddighin , Saeed Seddighin , Xiaorui Sun

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

One of the most fundamental method for comparing two given strings $A$ and $B$ is the longest common subsequence (LCS), where the task is to find (the length) of an LCS of $A$ and $B$. In this paper, we deal with the STR-IC-LCS problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Yuki Yonemoto , Yuto Nakashima , Shunsuke Inenaga , Hideo Bannai

We present the first $\mathrm{o}(n)$-space polynomial-time algorithm for computing the length of a longest common subsequence. Given two strings of length $n$, the algorithm runs in $\mathrm{O}(n^{3})$ time with $\mathrm{O}\left(\frac{n…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Masashi Kiyomi , Takashi Horiyama , Yota Otachi

Computation on compressed strings is one of the key approaches to processing massive data sets. We consider local subsequence recognition problems on strings compressed by straight-line programs (SLP), which is closely related to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-11-10 Alexander Tiskin

The Longest Common Substring (LCS) and Longest Palindromic Substring (LPS) are classical problems in computer science, representing fundamental challenges in string processing. Both problems can be solved in linear time using a classical…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Domenico Cantone , Simone Faro , Arianna Pavone , Caterina Viola

Let $A$ and $B$ be two number sequences of length $n$ and $m$, respectively, where $m\le n$. Given a positive number $\delta$, a common almost increasing sequence $s_1\ldots s_k$ is a common subsequence for both $A$ and $B$ such that for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Md Tanzeem Rahat , Md. Manzurul Hasan , Debajyoti Mondal

The Longest Common Increasing Subsequence problem (LCIS) is a natural variant of the celebrated Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) problem. For LCIS, as well as for LCS, there is an $O(n^2)$-time algorithm and a SETH-based conditional lower…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Lech Duraj

The string indexing problem is a fundamental computational problem with numerous applications, including information retrieval and bioinformatics. It aims to efficiently solve the pattern matching problem: given a text T of length n for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Waseem Akram , Takuya Mieno

This paper investigates the approximability of the Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) problem. The fastest algorithm for solving the LCS problem exactly runs in essentially quadratic time in the length of the input, and it is known that under…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Shyan Akmal , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

We consider the classic problem of computing the Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) of two strings of length $n$. While a simple quadratic algorithm has been known for the problem for more than 40 years, no faster algorithm has been found…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Karl Bringmann , Vincent Cohen-Addad , Debarati Das

The most fundamental problem considered in algorithms for text processing is pattern matching: given a pattern $p$ of length $m$ and a text $t$ of length $n$, does $p$ occur in $t$? Multiple versions of this basic question have been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Moses Ganardi , Paweł Gawrychowski

The {\em shortest common superstring} and the {\em shortest common supersequence} are two well studied problems having a wide range of applications. In this paper we consider both problems with resource constraints, denoted as the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-06-29 Raphaël Clifford , Zvi Gotthilf , Moshe Lewenstein , Alexandru Popa