An Algorithm for Finding the Largest Approximately Common Substructures of Two Trees

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 889-895

  Wang, Jason T L ^a,f   Shapiro, Bruce A ^b   Shasha, Dennis ^c   Zhang, Kaizhong ^d   Currey, Kathleen M ^e  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational biology; Dynamic programming; Pattern matching; Pattern recognition; Trees

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGY; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; NATURAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

PATTERN MATCHING;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032136849     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.709622     Document Type: Article

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