Shortest Superstring

Author Marcin Mucha



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Marcin Mucha

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Marcin Mucha. Shortest Superstring. In 28th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 78, p. 3:1, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2017.3

Abstract

In the Shortest Superstring problem (SS) one has to find a shortest string s containing given strings s_1,...,s_n as substrings. The problem is NP-hard, so a natural question is that of its approximability.

One natural approach to approximately solving SS is the following GREEDY heuristic: repeatedly merge two strings with the largest overlap until only a single string is left. This heuristic is conjectured to be a 2-approximation, but even after 30 years since the conjecture has been posed, we are still very far from proving it. The situation is better for non-greedy approximation algorithms, where several approaches yielding 2.5-approximation (and better) are known.

In this talk, we will survey the main results in the area, focusing on the fundamental ideas and intuitions.

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  • shortest superstring
  • approximation algorithms

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