,
Joshua Grogin
,
Gera Weiss
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license
We introduce ω^ ̅-NED, an edit distance between infinite words, that is a natural extension of NED, the normalized edit distance between finite words. We show it is a metric on (equivalence classes of) infinite words. We provide a polynomial time algorithm to compute the distance between two ultimately periodic words, and a polynomial time algorithm to compute the distance between two regular ω-languages given by non-deterministic Büchi automata.
@InProceedings{fisman_et_al:LIPIcs.CSL.2023.20,
author = {Fisman, Dana and Grogin, Joshua and Weiss, Gera},
title = {{A Normalized Edit Distance on Infinite Words}},
booktitle = {31st EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2023)},
pages = {20:1--20:20},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-264-8},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2023},
volume = {252},
editor = {Klin, Bartek and Pimentel, Elaine},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2023.20},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-174818},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2023.20},
annote = {Keywords: Edit Distance, Infinite Words, Robustness}
}