Abstract
The problem of efficiently computing and visualizing the structural resemblance between a pair of protein backbones in 3D has led Bereg et al. [4] to pose the Chain Pair Simplification problem (CPS). In this problem, given two polygonal chains A and B of lengths m and n, respectively, one needs to simplify them simultaneously, such that each of the resulting simplified chains, Aʹ and Bʹ, is of length at most k and the discrete Fréchet distance between Aʹ and Bʹ is at most δ, where k and δ are given parameters. In this paper we study the complexity of CPS under the discrete Fréchet distance (CPS-3F), i.e., where the quality of the simplifications is also measured by the discrete Fréchet distance. Since CPS-3F was posed in 2008, its complexity has remained open. In this paper, we prove that CPS-3F is actually polynomially solvable, by presenting an O(m2n2 min{m, n}) time algorithm for the corresponding minimization problem. On the other hand, we prove that if the vertices of the chains have integral weights then the problem is weakly NP-complete.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Algorithms and Data Structures - 14th International Symposium, WADS 2015, Proceedings |
| Editors | Frank Dehne, Jorg-Rudiger Sack, Ulrike Stege |
| Publisher | Springer Verlag |
| Pages | 351-362 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783319218397 |
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| State | Published - 2015 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 14th International Symposium on Algorithms and Data Structures, WADS 2015 - Victoria, Canada Duration: 5 Aug 2015 → 7 Aug 2015 |
Publication series
| Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
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| Volume | 9214 |
| ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
| ISSN (Electronic) | 1611-3349 |
Conference
| Conference | 14th International Symposium on Algorithms and Data Structures, WADS 2015 |
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| Country/Territory | Canada |
| City | Victoria |
| Period | 5/08/15 → 7/08/15 |
Bibliographical note
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