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We present new algorithms for the problem of multiple string matching of gapped patterns, where a gapped pattern is a sequence of strings such that there is a gap of fixed length between each two consecutive strings. The problem has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-08 Emanuele Giaquinta , Kimmo Fredriksson , Szymon Grabowski , Alexandru I. Tomescu , Esko Ukkonen

We study 4 problems in string matching, namely, regular expression matching, approximate regular expression matching, string edit distance, and subsequence indexing, on a standard word RAM model of computation that allows logarithmic-sized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-09-22 Philip Bille , Martin Farach-Colton

Detecting all the strings that occur in a text more frequently or less frequently than expected according to an IID or a Markov model is a basic problem in string mining, yet current algorithms are based on data structures that are either…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-08-13 Djamal Belazzougui , Fabio Cunial

The timed pattern matching problem is an actively studied topic because of its relevance in monitoring of real-time systems. There one is given a log $w$ and a specification $\mathcal{A}$ (given by a timed word and a timed automaton in this…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Masaki Waga , Ichiro Hasuo , Kohei Suenaga

We present a new efficient method for approximate search in electronic lexica. Given an input string (the pattern) and a similarity threshold, the algorithm retrieves all entries of the lexicon that are sufficiently similar to the pattern.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-12-04 Stefan Gerdjikov , Stoyan Mihov , Petar Mitankin , Klaus U. Schulz

In this paper we describe two simple, fast, space-efficient algorithms for finding all matches of an indeterminate pattern $p = p[1..m]$ in an indeterminate string $x = x[1..n]$, where both $p$ and $x$ are defined on a "small" ordered…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Hossein Dehghani , Neerja Mhaskar , W. F. Smyth

Subgraph matching is a compute-intensive problem that asks to enumerate all the isomorphic embeddings of a query graph within a data graph. This problem is generally solved with backtracking, which recursively evolves every possible partial…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Junya Arai , Makoto Onizuka , Yasuhiro Fujiwara , Sotetsu Iwamura

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

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

The parameterized matching problem is a variant of string matching, which is to search for all parameterized occurrences of a pattern $P$ in a text $T$. In considering matching algorithms, the combinatorial natures of strings, especially…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Haruki Ideguchi , Diptarama Hendrian , Ryo Yoshinaka , Ayumi Shinohara

We propose a new method for shape recognition and retrieval based on dynamic programming. Our approach uses the dynamic programming algorithm to compute the optimal score and to find the optimal alignment between two strings. First, each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Noreddine Gherabi , Bahaj Mohamed

Fast exact algorithms are known for Hamiltonian paths in undirected and directed bipartite graphs through elegant though involved algorithms that are quite different from each other. We devise algorithms that are simple and similar to each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-10 V. Arvind , Srijan Chakraborty , Samir Datta , Asif Khan

The pattern matching problem with swaps is to find all occurrences of a pattern in a text while allowing the pattern to swap adjacent symbols. The goal is to design fast matching algorithm that takes advantage of the bit parallelism of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Václav Blažej , Ondřej Suchý , Tomáš Valla

In the realm of computer science, the efficiency of text-search algorithms is crucial for processing vast amounts of data in areas such as natural language processing and bioinformatics. Traditional methods like Naive Search, KMP, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Xinyu Guan , Shaohua Zhang

We study the design of efficient algorithms for combinatorial pattern matching. More concretely, we study algorithms for tree matching, string matching, and string matching in compressed texts.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-09-03 Philip Bille

More than 120 algorithms have been developed for exact string matching within the last 40 years. We show by experiments that the \naive{} algorithm exploiting SIMD instructions of modern CPUs (with symbols compared in a special order) is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Jorma Tarhio , Jan Holub , Emanuele Giaquinta

We study a new variant of the string matching problem called cross-document string matching, which is the problem of indexing a collection of documents to support an efficient search for a pattern in a selected document, where the pattern…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-06-21 Gregory Kucherov , Yakov Nekrich , Tatiana Starikovskaya

In this paper we will describe a new approach on the well-known suffix-array algorithm using Big Table Data Technology. We will demonstrate how it is possible to refactor a well-known algorithm coupled by taking advantage of an…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Piero Giacomelli

Term pattern matching is the problem of finding all pattern matches in a subject term, given a set of patterns. Finding efficient algorithms for this problem is an important direction for research [19]. We present a new set automaton…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Rick Erkens , Jan Friso Groote

In his 1987 paper entitled "Generalized String Matching", Abrahamson introduced {\em pattern matching with character classes} and provided the first efficient algorithm to solve it. The best known solution to date is due to Linhart and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Alberto Apostolico , Péter L. Erdős , István Miklós , Johannes Siemons