A metric for rooted trees with unlabeled vertices based on nested parentheses

  • Authors:
  • Chan-Shuo Wu;Guan-Shieng Huang

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new metric for rooted trees with unlabeled vertices based on alignments of nested parenthesis strings. We prove that the time complexity for computing this metric is NP-hard and present a 1.5-approximation algorithm for it.