Fast and Simple Computation of All Longest Common Subsequences

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Abstract

This paper shows that a simple algorithm produces the all-prefixes-LCSs-graph in O(mn) time for two input sequences of size m and n. Given any prefix p of the first input sequence and any prefix q of the second input sequence, all longest common subsequences (LCSs) of p and q can be generated in time proportional to the output size, once the all-prefixes-LCSs-graph has been constructed. The problem can be solved in the context of generating all the distinct character strings that represent an LCS or in the context of generating all ways of embedding an LCS in the two input strings.

Original languageAmerican English
JournalComputer Science: Faculty Publications and Other Works
StatePublished - Mar 1 2011

Keywords

  • longest common subsequences
  • edit distance
  • shortest common supersequences

Disciplines

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

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