Selected Publications

Journal Articles


Decentralized Low-Stretch Trees via Low Diameter Graph Decompositions

Ruben Becker, Yuval Emek, Mohsen Ghaffari, Christoph Lenzen.

SIAM J. Comput. 53(2): 247-286, 2024

Two preliminary conference versions were published in DISC 2019 and ITCS 2020.

A survey of BWT variants for string collections

Davide Cenzato and Zsuzsanna Lipták.

Bioinformatics, Volume 40, Issue 7, 2024

Where the patterns are: repetition-aware compression for colored de Bruijn graphs

Alessio Campanelli, Giulio Ermanno Pibiri, Jason Fan, and Rob Patro

Journal of Computational Biology, Vol. 31, No. 10, 2024

Preliminary version published in RECOMB 2024.

Co-lexicographically Ordering Automata and Regular Languages - Part I

Nicola Cotumaccio, Giovanna D’Agostino, Alberto Policriti, and Nicola Prezza.

Journal of the ACM 70.4: 1-73, 2023

Preliminary version published in SODA 2021.

Parallel and External-Memory Construction of Minimal Perfect Hash Functions with PTHash

Giulio Ermanno Pibiri and Roberto Trani

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Volume 36, Issue 3, 2023

Preliminary version published in SIGIR 2021.

Sparse and skew hashing of kmers

Giulio Ermanno Pibiri

Bioinformatics, Volume 38, 2022

Near-Optimal Approximate Shortest Paths and Transshipment in Distributed and Streaming Models

Ruben Becker, Sebastian Forster, Andreas Karrenbauer, Christoph Lenzen.

SIAM J. Comput. 50(3): 815-856, 2021

A preliminary conference version was published in DISC 2017.

Fully Functional Suffix Trees and Optimal Text Searching in BWT-Runs Bounded Space

Travis Gagie, Gonzalo Navarro, and Nicola Prezza

Journal of the ACM 67(1): 2:1-2:54, 2020

Preliminary version published in SODA 2018.

Conference Papers


Analysing New Entropy Measures for Tries

Lorenzo Carfagna and Carlo Tosoni.

International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, 2025