Generalized LCS

Amihood Amir; Tzvika Hartman; Oren Kapah; B. Riva Shalom; Dekel Tsur

doi:10.1016/j.tcs.2008.08.037

Generalized LCS

Amihood Amir, Tzvika Hartman, Oren Kapah, B. Riva Shalom, Dekel Tsur

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The Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) is a well studied problem, having a wide range of implementations. Its motivation is in comparing strings. It has long been of interest to devise a similar measure for comparing higher dimensional objects, and more complex structures. In this paper we study the Longest Common Substructure of two matrices and show that this problem is N P-hard. We also study the Longest Common Subforest problem for multiple trees including a constrained version, as well. We show N P-hardness for k > 2 unordered trees in the constrained LCS. We also give polynomial time algorithms for ordered trees and prove a lower bound for any decomposition strategy for k trees.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	438-449
Number of pages	12
Journal	Theoretical Computer Science
Volume	409
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tcs.2008.08.037
State	Published - 28 Dec 2008

Keywords

Longest common subsequence
Matrices
Non crossing matching
Trees

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Theoretical Computer Science
General Computer Science

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