@InProceedings{bourhis_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2023.6, author = {Bourhis, Pierre and Boussidan, Aaron and Gambette, Philippe}, title = {{On Distances Between Words with Parameters}}, booktitle = {34th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2023)}, pages = {6:1--6:23}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-276-1}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2023}, volume = {259}, editor = {Bulteau, Laurent and Lipt\'{a}k, Zsuzsanna}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2023.6}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-179602}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2023.6}, annote = {Keywords: String matching, edit distance, Levenshtein, parameterized matching, parameterized words, parameter words, instantiable words, NP-completeness, MAX-SAT} }