@InProceedings{commins_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2020.11, author = {Commins, Patty and Liben-Nowell, David and Liu, Tina and Tomlinson, Kiran}, title = {{Summarizing Diverging String Sequences, with Applications to Chain-Letter Petitions}}, booktitle = {31st Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2020)}, pages = {11:1--11:15}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-149-8}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2020}, volume = {161}, editor = {G{\o}rtz, Inge Li and Weimann, Oren}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2020.11}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-121367}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2020.11}, annote = {Keywords: edit distance, tree reconstruction, information propagation, chain letters} }