An efficient algorithm for the All Pairs Suffix-Prefix Problem

Dan Gusfield, Gad M. Landau, Baruch Schieber

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Abstract

For a pair of strings (S1, S2), define the suffix-prefix match of (S1, S2) to be the longest suffix of string S1 that matches a prefix of string S2. The following problem is considered in this paper. Given a collection of strings S1, S2,...,Sk of total length m, find the suffix-prefix match for each of the k(k - 1) ordered pairs of strings. We present an algorithm that solves the problem in O(m + k2) time, for any fixed alphabet. Since the size of the input is Ω(m) and the size of the output is Ω(k2) this solution is optimal.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)181-185
Number of pages5
JournalInformation Processing Letters
Volume41
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 18 1992
Externally publishedYes

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Signal Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Computer Science Applications

Keywords

  • Design of algorithms
  • string matching
  • suffix tree

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