Word searching and indexing in historical document collections is a challenging problem because, characters in these documents are often touching or broken due to degradation/agei...
This paper defines a challenging problem of pattern matching between a pattern P and a text T, with wildcards and length constraints, and designs an efficient algorithm to return e...
Gong Chen, Xindong Wu, Xingquan Zhu, Abdullah N. A...
Filtering is a standard technique for fast approximate string matching in practice. In filtering, a quick first step is used to rule out almost all positions of a text as possib...
Intrusion Detection Systems such as Snort scan incoming packets for evidence of security threats. The most computation-intensive part of these systems is a text search against hund...
—String matching is a ubiquitous problem that arises in a wide range of applications in computing, e.g., packet routing, intrusion detection, web querying, and genome analysis. D...