@InProceedings{fan_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2016.37, author = {Fan, Chenglin and Filtser, Omrit and Katz, Matthew J. and Zhu, Binhai}, title = {{On the General Chain Pair Simplification Problem}}, booktitle = {41st International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2016)}, pages = {37:1--37:14}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-016-3}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2016}, volume = {58}, editor = {Faliszewski, Piotr and Muscholl, Anca and Niedermeier, Rolf}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2016.37}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-64510}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2016.37}, annote = {Keywords: chain simplification, discrete Frechet distance, dynamic programming, geometric arrangements, protein structural resemblance} }