Efficient parallel and serial approximate string matching
Gad M. Landau, Uzi Vishkin · 2011
Consider the string matching problem, where differences between characters of the pattern and characters of the text are allowed. Each difference is due to either a mismatch between a character of the text and a character of the pattern or a superfluous character in the text or a superfluous character in the pattern. Given a text of length n, a pattern of length m and an integer k, we present parallel and serial algorithms for finding all occurrences of the pattern in the text with at most k differences. The first part of the parallel algorithm consists of analysis of the pattern and takes O(log m) time using m 2 processors. The rest of the algorithm consists of handling the text. The text handling part applies the following new approach. This part starts by obtaining a concise characterization of the text which is based solely on substrings of the pattern in O(log m) time using n / log m processors. Then the desired output is derived from this characterization together with the tabl...