Computing the quartet distance between trees of arbitrary degree

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

Volumn 3692 LNBI, Issue , 2005, Pages 77-88

  Christiansen, Chris ^a   Mailund, Thomas ^a   Pedersen, Christian N S ^a   Randers, Martin ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ARBITRARY DEGREE; INTERNAL NODES; QUARTET DISTANCE; RUNNING TIME;

COMPUTATION THEORY;

EID: 33646201355     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11557067_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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