We describe a model for strings of characters that is loosely based on the Lempel Ziv model with the addition that a repeated substring can be an approximate match to the original...
In the Weapon-Target Assignment Problem, m enemy targets are inbound, each with a value Vj representing the damage it may do. The defense has n weapons, and the probability that w...
A genetic algorithm for the longest common subsequence problem encodes candidate sequences as binary strings that indicate subsequences of the shortest or first string. Its fitnes...
For as long as biologists have been computing alignments of sequences, the question of what values to use for scoring substitutions and gaps has persisted. While some choices for s...