Complexities of the centre and median string problems

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2676, Issue , 2003, Pages 315-327

  Nicolas, François ^a   Rivals, Eric ^a  

^a LIRMM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; PATTERN MATCHING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

BINARY ALPHABETS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; FINITE SET; INPUT STRING; MULTIPLE ALIGNMENT; NP COMPLETE; NP-COMPLETENESS; PARAMETRIZED COMPLEXITY;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 21144439407     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44888-8_23     Document Type: Article

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