Partial words are finite sequences over a finite alphabet A that may contain a number of “do not know” symbols denoted by ’s. Setting A = A ∪ { }, A∗ denotes the set o...
The problem of computing periods in words, or finite sequences of symbols from a finite alphabet, has important applications in several areas including data compression, string se...
The problem of classifying all the avoidable binary patterns in words has been completely solved (see Chapter 3 of M. Lothaire, Algebraic Combinatorics on Words, Cambridge Universi...
Francine Blanchet-Sadri, Robert Mercas, Sean Simmo...