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In the longest common substring problem, we are given two strings of length $n$ and must find a substring of maximal length that occurs in both strings. It is well known that the problem can be solved in linear time, but the solution is not…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Tomasz Kociumaka , Jakub Radoszewski , Tatiana Starikovskaya

Motivated by computing duplication patterns in sequences, a new fundamental problem called the longest subsequence-repeated subsequence (LSRS) is proposed. Given a sequence $S$ of length $n$, a letter-repeated subsequence is a subsequence…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Manuel Lafond , Wenfeng Lai , Adiesha Liyanage , Binhai Zhu

The Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) is a fundamental string similarity measure, and computing the LCS of two strings is a classic algorithms question. A textbook dynamic programming algorithm gives an exact algorithm in quadratic time, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Xiaoyu He , Ray Li

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

Given a string $T$ with length $n$ whose characters are drawn from an ordered alphabet of size $\sigma$, its longest Lyndon subsequence is a longest subsequence of $T$ that is a Lyndon word. We propose algorithms for finding such a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Hideo Bannai , Tomohiro I , Tomasz Kociumaka , Dominik Köppl , Simon J. Puglisi

In this paper, we consider a generalized longest common subsequence problem, in which a constraining sequence of length $s$ must be included as a substring and the other constraining sequence of length $t$ must be excluded as a subsequence…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-02 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

The longest square subsequence (LSS) problem consists of computing a longest subsequence of a given string $S$ that is a square, i.e., a longest subsequence of form $XX$ appearing in $S$. It is known that an LSS of a string $S$ of length…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Takafumi Inoue , Shunsuke Inenaga , Hideo Bannai

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

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

Given several number sequences, determining the longest common subsequence is a classical problem in computer science. This problem has applications in bioinformatics, especially determining transposable genes. Nevertheless, related works…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-21 Yue Wang

Longest Run Subsequence is a problem introduced recently in the context of the scaffolding phase of genome assembly (Schrinner et al., WABI 2020). The problem asks for a maximum length subsequence of a given string that contains at most one…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Riccardo Dondi , Florian Sikora

The longest common subsequence (LCS) problem is a central problem in stringology that finds the longest common subsequence of given two strings $A$ and $B$. More recently, a set of four constrained LCS problems (called generalized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Kohei Yamada , Yuto Nakashima , Shunsuke Inenaga , Hideo Bannai , Masayuki Takeda

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

Lately, there is a growing interest in dynamic string matching problems. Specifically, the dynamic Longest Common Factor problem has been researched and some interesting results has been reached. In this paper we examine another classic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Amihood Amir , Itai Boneh

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

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

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

Longest Common Subsequence ($LCS$) deals with the problem of measuring similarity of two strings. While this problem has been analyzed for decades, the recent interest stems from a practical observation that considering single characters is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Filip Pavetić , Ivan Katanić , Gustav Matula , Goran Žužić , Mile Šikić

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