The Complexity of Some Problems on Subsequences and Supersequences

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Volume 25 , Issue 2 (April 1978) table of contents

Pages: 322 - 336

Year of Publication: 1978

ISSN:0004-5411

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David Maier

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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