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An Improved Algorithm for Approximate String Matching

Galil, Zvi; Park, Kunsoo

Given a text string, a pattern string, and an integer k, a new algorithm for finding all occurrences of the pattern string in the text string with at most k differences is presented. Both its theoretical and practical variants improve the known algorithms.

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Academic Units
Computer Science
Publisher
Department of Computer Science, Columbia University
Series
Columbia University Computer Science Technical Reports, CUCS-468-89
Published Here
January 11, 2012