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Noun 1. substring - a string that is part of a longer string
string - a linear sequence of symbols (characters or words or phrases)
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To apply the GA approach to the problem of optimal product line design, we define each substring to represent one of K conjoint attributes.
Genetic Algorithms for product design: how well do they really work?
However, we also pay attention to extensions such as generalized edit distance, transpositions and general substring substitution, as well as to simplifications such as LCS and Hamming distance.
A Guided Tour to Approximate String Matching
(5) A compacted trie differs from a trie in that maximal branch-free paths are replaced by edges labeled by the appropriate substring.
On the Sorting-Complexity of Suffix Tree Construction
Observe that there is never confusion as to whether self-edges represent unbounded paths or are genuine edges; the distinct node restriction we have prevents a substring of the form n1,l1,n1 from appearing in the from-clause.
Information Gathering in the World Wide Web: The W3QL Query Language and the W3QS System
Self is defined as a set of equal-length strings (e.g., by logically segmenting the protected data into equal-size substrings), and each detector is defined as a string of the same length as the substring.
Computer immunology
A more precise definition might be "Given a universe U identify all elements of U that contain a substring x matching a particular pattern r." For searching text, a simple universe U is some a priori set of strings - file names in a directory, lines in a file, or documents in a collection.
On the use of regular expressions for searching text
The payload signature is a unique and continuous substring within the traffic payload generated by the same application.
Automatic Payload Signature Update System for the Classification of Dynamically Changing Internet Applications
If the similarity value between the two strings is zero, it means that they do not have any common substring [23].
Detecting Zero-day polymorphic worms with Jaccard similarity algorithm

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