Computing the Number of Longest Common Subsequences

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Abstract

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.

Original languageAmerican English
JournalComputer Science: Faculty Publications and Other Works
StatePublished - Jan 1 2003

Keywords

  • longest common subsequences
  • edit distance
  • shortest common supersequences

Disciplines

  • Computer Sciences
  • Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics
  • Theory and Algorithms

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