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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

We consider the longest common subsequence (LCS) problem with the restriction that the common subsequence is required to consist of at least $k$ length substrings. First, we show an $O(mn)$ time algorithm for the problem which gives a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Yohei Ueki , Diptarama , Masatoshi Kurihara , Yoshiaki Matsuoka , Kazuyuki Narisawa , Ryo Yoshinaka , Hideo Bannai , Shunsuke Inenaga , Ayumi Shinohara

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

Two strings of the same length are said to Cartesian-tree match (CT-match) if their Cartesian-trees are isomorphic [Park et al., TCS 2020]. Cartesian-tree matching is a natural model that allows for capturing similarities of numerical…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Taketo Tsujimoto , Yuki Yonemoto , Hiroki Shibata , Takuya Mieno , Yuto Nakashima , Shunsuke Inenaga

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

Given a set of $k$ strings $I$, their longest common subsequence (LCS) is the string with the maximum length that is a subset of all the strings in $I$. A data-structure for this problem preprocesses $I$ into a data-structure such that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Sepideh Aghamolaei

We revisit the classic combinatorial pattern matching problem of finding a longest common subsequence (LCS). For strings $x$ and $y$ of length $n$, a textbook algorithm solves LCS in time $O(n^2)$, but although much effort has been spent,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Karl Bringmann , Marvin Künnemann

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

The Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) is the problem of finding a subsequence among a set of strings that has two properties of being common to all and is the longest. The LCS has applications in computational biology and text editing, among…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Alireza Abdi , Masih Hajsaeedi , Mohsen Hooshmand

In this paper we define a new problem, motivated by computational biology, $LCSk$ aiming at finding the maximal number of $k$ length $substrings$, matching in both input strings while preserving their order of appearance. The traditional…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-02-11 Gary Benson , Avivit Levy , Riva Shalom

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

Finding the common subsequences of $L$ multiple strings has many applications in the area of bioinformatics, computational linguistics, and information retrieval. A well-known result states that finding a Longest Common Subsequence (LCS)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Jin Cao , Dewei Zhong

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

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

The Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) of two strings is a fundamental string similarity measure with a classical dynamic programming solution taking quadratic time. Despite significant efforts, little progress was made in improving the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Negev Shekel Nosatzki

In this paper, we consider a generalized longest common subsequence problem, the string-excluding constrained LCS problem. For the two input sequences $X$ and $Y$ of lengths $n$ and $m$, and a constraint string $P$ of length $r$, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-31 Lei Wang , Xiaodong Wang , Yingjie Wu , Daxin Zhu

We consider the problem of finding, given two documents of total length $n$, a longest string occurring as a substring of both documents. This problem, known as the Longest Common Substring (LCS) problem, has a classic $O(n)$-time solution…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Stav Ben-Nun , Shay Golan , Tomasz Kociumaka , Matan Kraus

Finding an Approximate Longest Common Substring (ALCS) within a given set $S=\{s_1,s_2,\ldots,s_m\}$ of $m \ge 2$ strings is a key problem in computational biology, such as identifying related mutations across multiple genetic sequences. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Hamed Hasibi , Neerja Mhaskar , W. F. Smyth

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

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
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