Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
437702 Theoretical Computer Science 2010 9 Pages PDF
Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new metric for rooted trees with unlabeled vertices based on alignments of nested parenthesis strings. We prove that the time complexity for computing this metric is NP-hard and present a 1.5-approximation algorithm for it.

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