1 Department of Statistics and Mathematics, Bindura University of Science Education, Bindura, Zimbabwe 2 Department of Mathematics, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana This study develops a ...

The Levenshtein distance is a string metric for measuring the difference between two sequences. It represents the minimum number of single-character edits (insertions, deletions, or substitutions) ...

Abstract: The edit distance (also known as Levenshtein distance) of two strings is the minimum number of insertions, deletions, and substitutions of characters needed to transform one string into the ...

A Google engineer’s redacted testimony published online by the U.S. Justice Department offers a look inside Google’s ranking systems, offering an idea about Google’s quality scores and introduces a ...

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Edit distance is well-defined over arrays of any kind of categorical values (like integers standing in for characters or strings), not just strings. However, the implementation of edit distance is ...

ABSTRACT: Discrete curves are composed of a set of ordered discrete points distributed at the intersection of the scanning plane and the surface of the object. In order to accurately calculate the ...

ABSTRACT: In this paper, both the high-complexity near-ML list decoding and the low-complexity belief propagation decoding are tested for some well-known regular and irregular LDPC codes. The ...