In the pattern matching with d wildcards problem we are given a text T of length n and a pattern P of length m that contains d wildcard characters, each denoted by a special symbol '?'. A wildcard character matches any other character. The goal is to establish for each m-length substring of T whether it matches P. In the streaming model variant of the pattern matching with d wildcards problem the text T arrives one character at a time and the goal is to report, before the next character arrives, if the last m characters match P while using only o(m) words of space. In this paper we introduce two new algorithms for the d wildcard pattern matching problem in the streaming model. The first is a randomized Monte Carlo algorithm that is parameterized by a constant 0<=delta<=1. This algorithm uses ~O(d^{1-delta}) amortized time per character and ~O(d^{1+delta}) words of space. The second algorithm, which is used as a black box in the first algorithm, is a randomized Monte Carlo algorithm which uses O(d+log m) worst-case time per character and O(d log m) words of space.
@InProceedings{golan_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2016.44, author = {Golan, Shay and Kopelowitz, Tsvi and Porat, Ely}, title = {{Streaming Pattern Matching with d Wildcards}}, booktitle = {24th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2016)}, pages = {44:1--44:16}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-015-6}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2016}, volume = {57}, editor = {Sankowski, Piotr and Zaroliagis, Christos}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2016.44}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-63561}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2016.44}, annote = {Keywords: wildcards, don't-cares, streaming pattern matching, fingerprints} }
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