Title: Asynchronous Pattern Matching -- Address Level Errors

Dr Amihood Amir

Bar-Ilan University and Johns Hopkins University

Date and time: 11.30am - 12.30pm, Friday 7th Nov, 2008

Venue: 10.08.03 (Building 10, Level 8, Room 3)

Abstract:

Traditional pattern matching assumes an input text and pattern strings and looks for all text locations where there is a match of

the pattern to the text. Different match relations were considered and many match approximations were proposed and examined. An

underlying assumption in these studies was that the text or pattern might present content errors do due various causes while

the order of the contents is kept as is. While this is a reasonable assumption in many situations, it does not answer many

applications.

 

In the asynchronous pattern matching model the input text and pattern are originated at different net users. Thus, the owner of

the text is searching for a pattern delivered in packets through asynchronous communication. Each packet has a content field -

keeping the data of the pattern location, and an address field - keeping the original location of this content. Now, messages might

suffer from communication errors occurring on content or address level. We start the study of the asynchronous pattern matching by

assuming a simplified model where the errors are only at the address field. This talk presents efficient algorithms for coping

with bit-flips errors in the address field.


Organizer: Dr. Falk Scholer