Pattern Recognition and String Matching

This comprehensive volume offers a collection of 28 state-of-the-art articles contributed by experts of pattern recognition, string matching, or both. It contains fundamental concepts and notations, as well as reports on contemporary research with respect to both methodology and applications. In particular, it includes string matching related techniques for structural pattern recognition. It also explores many applications of pattern recognition strategies to image segmentation, intrusion detection, handwriting recognition and others.