Abstract
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 give, what is to our knowledge, the first inherently multi-dimensional definition of LCS. We discuss the Longest Common Substructure of two matrices and the Longest Common Subtree problem for multiple trees including a constrained version. Both problems cannot be solved by a natural extension of the original LCS solution. We investigate the tractability of the above problems. For the first we prove NP-Conipleteness. For the latter NP-hardness holds for two general unordered trees and for k trees in the constrained LCS.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | String Processing and Information Retrieval - 14th International Symposium, SPIRE 2007, Proceedings |
| Publisher | Springer Verlag |
| Pages | 50-61 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783540755296 |
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| State | Published - 2007 |
| Event | 14th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, SPIRE 2007 - Santiago, Chile Duration: 29 Oct 2007 → 31 Oct 2007 |
Publication series
| Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
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| Volume | 4726 LNCS |
| ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
| ISSN (Electronic) | 1611-3349 |
Conference
| Conference | 14th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, SPIRE 2007 |
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| Country/Territory | Chile |
| City | Santiago |
| Period | 29/10/07 → 31/10/07 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The authors wish to thank the anonymous referees for their helpful comments. The first author was partly supported by ISF grant 35/05.
Funding
The authors wish to thank the anonymous referees for their helpful comments. The first author was partly supported by ISF grant 35/05.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| Iowa Science Foundation | 35/05 |