A genetic algorithm for the longest common subsequence problem encodes candidate sequences as binary strings that indicate subsequences of the shortest or first string. Its fitnes...
We show that any deterministic data-stream algorithm that makes a constant number of passes over the input and gives a constant factor approximation of the length of the longest i...
For two strings a, b, the longest common subsequence (LCS) problem consists in comparing a and b by computing the length of their LCS. In a previous paper, we defined a generalisat...
Sequence comparison is a fundamental task in pattern matching. Its applications include file comparison, spelling correction, information retrieval, and computing (dis)similaritie...
We derive a new generalization of lowest common ancestors (LCAs) in dags, called the lowest single common ancestor (LSCA). We show how to preprocess a static dag in linear time su...