A parallel multistart algorithm for the closest string problem

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3636-3643

  Gomes, Fernando C ^a   Meneses, Cláudio N ^b   Pardalos, Panos M ^b   Viana, Gerardo Valdisio R ^a,c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^b J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Closest String Problem; Parallel algorithms; Sequence analysis

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; HEURISTIC METHODS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CLOSEST STRING PROBLEMS (CSP); PARALLEL MULTISTART ALGORITHMS;

PARALLEL ALGORITHMS;

EID: 41149146676     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2007.04.002     Document Type: Article

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