We initiate the study of the smoothed complexity of the Closest String problem by proposing a semi-random model of Hamming distance. We restrict interest to the optimization versio...
Abstract. The problem of finding a center string that is "close" to every given string arises in computational molecular biology and coding theory. This problem has two v...
Given a set of n strings of length L and a radius d, the closest string problem (CSP for short) asks for a string tsol that is within a Hamming distance of d to each of the given ...
Given a set of strings S of equal lengths over an alphabet Σ, the closest string problem seeks a string over Σ whose maximum Hamming distance to any of the given strings is as s...
In this paper, we design genetic algorithm and simulated annealing algorithm and their parallel versions to solve the Closest String problem. Our implementation and experiments sho...