TY - GEN
T1 - An optimal decomposition algorithm for tree edit distance
AU - Demaine, Erik D.
AU - Mozes, Shay
AU - Rossman, Benjamin
AU - Weimann, Oren
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - The edit distance between two ordered rooted trees with vertex labels is the minimum cost of transforming one tree into the other by a sequence of elementary operations consisting of deleting and relabeling existing nodes, as well as inserting new nodes. In this paper, we present a worst-case O(n 3)-time algorithm for this problem, improving the previous best O(n3 log n)-time algorithm [7]. Our result requires a novel adaptive strategy for deciding how a dynamic program divides into subproblems, together with a deeper understanding of the previous algorithms for the problem. We prove the optimality of our algorithm among the family of decomposition strategy algorithms-which also includes the previous fastest algorithms-by tightening the known lower bound of Q(n2 log2 n) [4] to Ωn 3), matching our algorithm's running time. Furthermore, we obtain matching upper and lower bounds of ⊖(nm2(1 + log m/n)) when the two trees have sizes m and n where m < n.
AB - The edit distance between two ordered rooted trees with vertex labels is the minimum cost of transforming one tree into the other by a sequence of elementary operations consisting of deleting and relabeling existing nodes, as well as inserting new nodes. In this paper, we present a worst-case O(n 3)-time algorithm for this problem, improving the previous best O(n3 log n)-time algorithm [7]. Our result requires a novel adaptive strategy for deciding how a dynamic program divides into subproblems, together with a deeper understanding of the previous algorithms for the problem. We prove the optimality of our algorithm among the family of decomposition strategy algorithms-which also includes the previous fastest algorithms-by tightening the known lower bound of Q(n2 log2 n) [4] to Ωn 3), matching our algorithm's running time. Furthermore, we obtain matching upper and lower bounds of ⊖(nm2(1 + log m/n)) when the two trees have sizes m and n where m < n.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-73420-8_15
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-73420-8_15
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:38149078101
SN - 3540734198
SN - 9783540734192
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 146
EP - 157
BT - Automata, Languages and Programming - 34th International Colloquium, ICALP 2007, Proceedings
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 34th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, ICALP 2007
Y2 - 9 July 2007 through 13 July 2007
ER -