Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
428908 Information Processing Letters 2006 8 Pages PDF
Abstract

Given q+1 strings (a text t of length n and q patterns m1,…,mq) and a natural number w, the multiple serial episode matching problem consists in finding the number of size w windows of text t which contain patterns m1,…,mq as subsequences, i.e., for each mi, if mi=p1,…,pk, the letters p1,…,pk occur in the window, in the same order as in mi, but not necessarily consecutively (they may be interleaved with other letters). Our main contribution here is an algorithm solving this problem on-line in time O(nq) with an MP-RAM model (which is a RAM model equipped with extra operations).

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