New common ancestor problems in trees and directed acyclic graphs

DOI10.1016/J.IPL.2010.02.014MaRDI QIDQ991797zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Johannes Fischer, D. Huson

Publication date 7 September 2010

Published in Information Processing Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipl.2010.02.014

zbMATH Keywords

data structurescomputational biologygraph algorithms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Directed graphs (digraphs), tournaments (05C20) Graph algorithms (graph-theoretic aspects) (05C85) Data structures (68P05) Computational methods for problems pertaining to biology (92-08)

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