Computing the minimum approximate λ-cover of a string

Abstract

This paper studies the minimum approximate λ-cover problem of a string. Given a string x of length n and an integer A, the minimum approximate λ-cover problem is to find a set of λ substrings of equal length that covers x with the minimum error, under a variety of distance models including the Hamming distance, the edit distance and the weighted edit distance. We present an algorithm that can solve this problem in polynomial time. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006.