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We present algorithms for length-constrained maximum sum segment and maximum density segment problems, in particular, and the problem of finding length-constrained heaviest segments, in general, for a sequence of real numbers. Given a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Md. Shafiul Alam , Asish Mukhopadhyay

Let $\Sigma$ be an alphabet. For two strings $X$, $Y$, and a constrained string $P$ over the alphabet $\Sigma$, the constrained longest common subsequence and substring problem for two strings $X$ and $Y$ with respect to $P$ is to find a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-04 R. Li , J. Deka , K. Deka , D. Li

The problem of finding a longest common subsequence of two main sequences with some constraint that must be a substring of the result (STR-IC-LCS) was formulated recently. It is a variant of the constrained longest common subsequence…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-07-01 Sebastian Deorowicz

This paper shows that a simple algorithm produces the {\em all-prefixes-LCSs-graph} in $O(mn)$ time for two input sequences of size $m$ and $n$. Given any prefix $p$ of the first input sequence and any prefix $q$ of the second input…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-03-09 Ronald I. Greenberg

In this paper, we consider a generalized longest common subsequence problem with multiple substring inclusive constraints. For the two input sequences $X$ and $Y$ of lengths $n$ and $m$, and a set of $d$ constraints $P=\{P_1,\cdots,P_d\}$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-26 Daxin Zhu , Lei Wang , Yingjie Wu , Xiaodong Wang

In this paper we address the constrained longest common subsequence problem. Given two sequences $X$, $Y$ and a constrained sequence $P$, a sequence $Z$ is a constrained longest common subsequence for $X$ and $Y$ with respect to $P$ if $Z$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Francis Yuk Lun Chin , Ngai Lam Ho , Alfredo De Santis , S. K. Kim

In this paper, we consider a generalized longest common subsequence problem with multiple substring exclusion constrains. For the two input sequences $X$ and $Y$ of lengths $n$ and $m$, and a set of $d$ constrains $P=\{P_1,...,P_d\}$ of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-03-11 Lei Wang , Xiaodong Wang , Yingjie Wu , Daxin Zhu

Given a pair of strings, the problems of computing their Longest Common Subsequence and Edit Distance have been extensively studied for decades. For exact algorithms, LCS and Edit Distance (with character insertions and deletions) are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Aviad Rubinstein , Zhao Song

The Longest Common Subsequence Problem (LCS) deals with finding the longest subsequence among a given set of strings. The LCS problem is an NP-hard problem which makes it a target for lots of effort to find a better solution with heuristics…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Alireza Abdi , Mohsen Hooshmand

This study investigates whether reoptimization can help in solving the closest substring problem. We are dealing with the following reoptimization scenario. Suppose, we have an optimal l-length closest substring of a given set of sequences…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Jhoirene B. Clemente , Henry N. Adorna

Based on the Breslauer-Italiano online suffix tree construction algorithm (2013) with double logarithmic worst-case guarantees on the update time per letter, we develop near-real-time algorithms for several classical problems on strings,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Dominik Köppl , Gregory Kucherov

Let us consider the Multiple String Matching Problem. In this problem, we consider a long string, denoted by $t$, of length $n$. This string is referred to as a text. We also consider a sequence of $m$ strings, denoted by $S$, which we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-25 Kamil Khadiev , Danil Serov

The problem of finding longest common subsequence (LCS) is one of the fundamental problems in computer science, which finds application in fields such as computational biology, text processing, information retrieval, data compression etc.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Amey Bhangale , Diptarka Chakraborty , Rajendra Kumar

Run Length Encoding(RLE) is one of the oldest algorithms for data-compression available, a method used for compression of large data into smaller and therefore more compact data. It compresses by looking at the data for repetitions of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-23 Meo Mespotine

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

Although real-world text datasets, such as DNA sequences, are far from being uniformly random, average-case string searching algorithms perform significantly better than worst-case ones in most applications of interest. In this paper, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Lorraine A. K. Ayad , Panagiotis Charalampopoulos , Costas S. Iliopoulos , Solon P. Pissis

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

This note provides very simple, efficient algorithms for computing the number of distinct longest common subsequences of two input strings and for computing the number of LCS embeddings.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ronald I. Greenberg

We provide a deterministic algorithm that outputs an $O(n^{3/4} \log n)$-approximation for the Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) of two input sequences of length $n$ in near-linear time. This is the first deterministic approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Itai Boneh , Shay Golan , Matan Kraus

This paper performs the analysis necessary to bound the running time of known, efficient algorithms for generating all longest common subsequences. That is, we bound the running time as a function of input size for algorithms with time…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ronald I. Greenberg