TY - JOUR AU - Chen, Yangjun PY - 2007 TI - A New Algorithm for Subset Matching Problem JF - Journal of Computer Science VL - 3 IS - 12 DO - 10.3844/jcssp.2007.924.933 UR - https://thescipub.com/abstract/jcssp.2007.924.933 AB - The subset matching problem is to find all occurrences of a pattern string p of length m in a text string t of length n, where each pattern and text position is a set of characters drawn from some alphabet ∑. The pattern is said to occur at text position i if the set p[j] is a subset of the set t[i + j - 1], for all j (1 ≤ j≤ m). This is a generalization of the ordinary string matching and can be used for finding matching subtree patterns. In this research, we propose a new algorithm that needs O(n.m) time in the worst case. But its average time complexity is O(n + m.nlog1.5).