CPM's 20th Anniversary: A Statistical Retrospective

摘要

This year the Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM) celebrates its 20th anniversary. Over the last two decades the Symposium has established itself as the most recognized international forum for research in combinatorial pattern matching and related applications. Contributions to the conference typically address issues of searching and matching strings and more complex patterns such as trees, regular expressions, graphs, point sets, and arrays. Advances in this field rely on the ability to expose combinatorial properties of the computational problem at hand and to exploit these properties in order to either achieve superior performance or identify conditions under which searches cannot be performed efficiently. The meeting also deals with combinatorial problems in computational biology, data compression, data mining, coding, information retrieval, natural language processing and pattern recognition.