作者: Xindong Wu , Ji-Peng Qiang , Fei Xie
DOI: 10.1007/S11390-014-1464-3
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摘要: Pattern matching with wildcards (PMW) has great theoretical and practical significance in bioinformatics, information retrieval, pattern mining. Due to the uncertainty of wildcards, not only is number all matches exponential respect maximal gap flexibility length, but positions PMW are also hard choose. The objective count one by computationally infeasible. Therefore, rather than solving generic problem, many research efforts have further defined new problems within according different application backgrounds. To break through limitations either fixing or allowing an unbounded flexible (PMFW) allows users control ranges wildcards. In this paper, we provide a survey on state-of-the-art algorithms for PMFW, detailed analyses comparisons, discuss challenges opportunities PMFW applications.