id: 06105259 dt: a an: 06105259 au: Zhang, Hui; Guo, Qing; Iliopoulos, Costas S. ti: Computing the minimum $λ$-cover in weighted sequences. so: Huang, De-Shuang (ed.) et al., Intelligent computing technology. 8th international conference, ICIC 2012, Huangshan, China, July 25‒29, 2012. Proceedings. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 978-3-642-31587-9/pbk). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7389, 120-127 (2012). py: 2012 pu: Berlin: Springer la: EN cc: ut: weighted sequence; the minimum $λ$-cover problem; $λ$-combination; equivalence class tree ci: li: doi:10.1007/978-3-642-31588-6_16 ab: Summary: Given a weighted sequence $X$ of length n and an integer constant $λ$, the minimum $λ$-cover problem of weighted sequences is to find the sets of $λ$ factors of $X$ each of equal length such that the set covers $X$, and the length of each element in the set is minimum. By constructing the Equivalence Class Tree and iteratively computing the occurrences of a set of factors in weighted sequences, we tackle the problem in $O(n ^{2})$ time for constant alphabet size. rv: