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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 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 {\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

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

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

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

At CPM 2017, Castelli et al. define and study a new variant of the Longest Common Subsequence Problem, termed the Longest Filled Common Subsequence Problem (LFCS). For the LFCS problem, the input consists of two strings $A$ and $B$ and a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Radu Stefan Mincu , Alexandru Popa

In this paper we present algorithms for several string problems in the Congested Clique model. In the Congested Clique model, $n$ nodes (computers) are used to solve some problem. The input to the problem is distributed among the nodes, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Shay Golan , Matan Kraus

Given a set of strings, the shortest common superstring problem is to find the shortest possible string that contains all the input strings. The problem is NP-hard, but a lot of work has gone into designing approximation algorithms for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Jarno Alanko , Tuukka Norri

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

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

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 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

In this paper, we consider the ``Shortest Superstring Problem''(SSP) or the ``Shortest Common Superstring Problem''(SCS). The problem is as follows. For a positive integer $n$, a sequence of n strings $S=(s^1,\dots,s^n)$ is given. We should…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Kamil Khadiev , Carlos Manuel Bosch Machado

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

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

The Shortest Common Supersequence problem (SCS for short) consists in finding a shortest common supersequence of a finite set of words on a fixed alphabet Sigma. It is well-known that its decision version denoted [SR8] in [Garey and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-01-09 Aurélie Lagoutte , Sébastien Tavenas

Given a sequence $S$ of length $n$, a letter-duplicated subsequence is a subsequence of $S$ in the form of $x_1^{d_1}x_2^{d_2}\cdots x_k^{d_k}$ with $x_i\in\Sigma$, $x_j\neq x_{j+1}$ and $d_i\geq 2$ for all $i$ in $[k]$ and $j$ in $[k-1]$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Wenfeng Lai , Adiesha Liyanage , Binhai Zhu , Peng Zou

In this paper, we study for the first time the Diverse Longest Common Subsequences (LCSs) problem under Hamming distance. Given a set of a constant number of input strings, the problem asks to decide if there exists some subset $\mathcal X$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Yuto Shida , Giulia Punzi , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Takeaki Uno , Hiroki Arimura