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We introduce a new metric of match, called Cartesian tree matching, which means that two strings match if they have the same Cartesian trees. Based on Cartesian tree matching, we define single pattern matching for a text of length n and a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Sung Gwan Park , Amihood Amir , Gad M. Landau , Kunsoo Park

With the advent of large-scale heterogeneous search engines comes the problem of unified search control resulting in mismatches that could have otherwise avoided. A mechanism is needed to determine exact patterns in web mining and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Nazim Uddin Sheikh , Hasina Rahman , Hamid Al-Qahtani

It is well-known that checking whether a given string $w$ matches a given regular expression $r$ can be done in quadratic time $O(|w|\cdot |r|)$ and that this cannot be improved to a truly subquadratic running time of $O((|w|\cdot…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Antoine Amarilli , Florin Manea , Tina Ringleb , Markus L. Schmid

We present the first dynamic algorithms for Dyck and tree edit distances with subpolynomial update times. Dyck edit distance measures how far a parenthesis string is from a well-parenthesized expression, while tree edit distance quantifies…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Debarati Das , Jacob Gilbert , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Tomasz Kociumaka , Barna Saha

Exact string solutions are presented, providing backgrounds where a dynamical change of topology is occuring. This is induced by the time variation of a modulus field. Some lessons are drawn concerning the region of validity of effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 E. Kiritsis , C. Kounnas

The dictionary matching with gaps problem is to preprocess a dictionary $D$ of $d$ gapped patterns $P_1,\ldots,P_d$ over alphabet $\Sigma$, where each gapped pattern $P_i$ is a sequence of subpatterns separated by bounded sequences of don't…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-08-12 Amihood Amir , Avivit Levy , Ely Porat , B. Riva Shalom

This paper gives new results for synchronization strings, a powerful combinatorial object that allows to efficiently deal with insertions and deletions in various communication settings: $\bullet$ We give a deterministic, linear time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Bernhard Haeupler , Amirbehshad Shahrasbi

A key principle in string processing is local consistency: using short contexts to handle matching fragments of a string consistently. String synchronizing sets [Kempa, Kociumaka; STOC 2019] are an influential instantiation of this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Jonas Ellert , Tomasz Kociumaka

Approximate string matching is the problem of finding all factors of a text t of length n that are at a distance at most k from a pattern x of length m. Approximate circular string matching is the problem of finding all factors of t that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-26 Carl Barton , Costas S. Iliopoulos , Solon P. Pissis

We revisit various string indexing problems with range reporting features, namely, position-restricted substring searching, indexing substrings with gaps, and indexing substrings with intervals. We obtain the following main results.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-08-19 Philip Bille , Inge Li Goertz

In this work, we study the problem of detecting periodic trends in strings. While detecting exact periodicity has been studied extensively, real-world data is often noisy, where small deviations or mismatches occur between repetitions. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Taha El Ghazi , Tatiana Starikovskaya

In many applications, it is necessary to determine the string similarity. Edit distance[WF74] approach is a classic method to determine Field Similarity. A well known dynamic programming algorithm [GUS97] is used to calculate edit distance…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Qi Xiao Yang , Sung Sam Yuan , Lu Chun , Li Zhao , Sun Peng

Permutation patterns and pattern avoidance are central, well-studied concepts in combinatorics and computer science. Given two permutations $\tau$ and $\pi$, the pattern matching problem (PPM) asks whether $\tau$ contains $\pi$. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Benjamin Aram Berendsohn

Let $S$ be a string of length $n$ over an alphabet $\Sigma$ and let $Q$ be a subset of $\Sigma$ of size $q \geq 2$. The 'co-occurrence problem' is to construct a compact data structure that supports the following query: given an integer $w$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Philip Bille , Inge Li Gørtz , Tord Stordalen

In this paper, we focus on the problem of dynamically analysing concurrent software against high-level temporal specifications. Existing techniques for runtime monitoring against such specifications are primarily designed for sequential…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Zhendong Ang , Umang Mathur

We study fully dynamic algorithms for maximum matching. This is a well-studied problem, known to admit several update-time/approximation trade-offs. For instance, it is known how to maintain a 1/2-approximate matching in $\log^{O(1)} n$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Soheil Behnezhad

We consider document listing on string collections, that is, finding in which strings a given pattern appears. In particular, we focus on repetitive collections: a collection of size $N$ over alphabet $[1,\sigma]$ is composed of $D$ copies…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Gonzalo Navarro

We consider the problem of querying a string (or, a database) of length $N$ bits to determine all the locations where a substring (query) of length $M$ appears either exactly or is within a Hamming distance of $K$ from the query. We assume…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-27 Nagaraj T. Janakiraman , Avinash Vem , Krishna R. Narayanan , Jean-Francois Chamberland

In the problem of $\texttt{Generalised Pattern Matching}\ (\texttt{GPM})$ [STOC'94, Muthukrishnan and Palem], we are given a text $T$ of length $n$ over an alphabet $\Sigma_T$, a pattern $P$ of length $m$ over an alphabet $\Sigma_P$, and a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Bartłomiej Dudek , Paweł Gawrychowski , Tatiana Starikovskaya

The compressed indexing problem is to preprocess a string $S$ of length $n$ into a compressed representation that supports pattern matching queries. That is, given a string $P$ of length $m$ report all occurrences of $P$ in $S$. We present…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Anders Roy Christiansen , Mikko Berggren Ettienne