Fast algorithms for comparison of similar unordered trees

  • Authors:
  • Daiji Fukagawa;Tatsuya Akutsu

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Intelligence Science and Technology, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan;Bioinformatics Center, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

  • Venue:
  • ISAAC'04 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Algorithms and Computation
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We present fast algorithms for computing the largest common subtree (LCST) and the optimal alignment when two similar unordered trees are given We present an O(4Kn) time algorithm for the LCST problem for rooted trees, where n is the maximum size of two input trees and K is the minimum number of edit operations to obtain LCST We extend this algorithm to unrooted trees and obtain an O(K 4Kn) time algorithm We also show that the alignment problem for rooted and unordered trees of bounded degree can be solved in linear time if K is bounded by a constant.