A probabilistic beam search approach to the shortest common supersequence problem

The Shortest Common Supersequence Problem (SCSP) is a well-known hard combinatorial optimization problem that formalizes many real world problems. This paper presents a novel randomized search strategy, called probabilistic beam search (PBS), based on the hybridization between beam search and greedy...

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Autores: Blum, Christian, Cotta, C., Fernández, Antonio J., Gallardo, Francisco
Tipo de recurso: informe técnico
Fecha de publicación:2006
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/87415
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/87415
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Combinatorial mathematics
Greedy algorithms
Optimisation
Probability
Search problems
String matching
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Sumario:The Shortest Common Supersequence Problem (SCSP) is a well-known hard combinatorial optimization problem that formalizes many real world problems. This paper presents a novel randomized search strategy, called probabilistic beam search (PBS), based on the hybridization between beam search and greedy constructive heuristics. PBS is competitive (and sometimes better than) previous state-of-the-art algorithms for solving the SCSP. The paper describes PBS and provides an experimental analysis (including comparisons with previous approaches) that demonstrate its usefulness.