Dr Lorraine Ayad
Lecturer - Computer Science
Ayad, LAK., Loukides, G. and Pissis, SP. (2025) 'Text indexing for long patterns using locally consistent anchors'. VLDB Journal, 34 (5). ISSN: 1066-8888
Ayad, LAK., Fici, G., Koerkamp, RG., Loukides, G., Patro, R., Pibiri, GE. and et al. (2025) 'U-Index: A Universal Indexing Framework for Matching Long Patterns'.23rd International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2025). Venice, Italy. 15 - 24 July. Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics Lipics. pp. 4-1 - 4-18. ISSN: 1868-8969 Open Access Link
Verbeek, H., Ayad, LAK., Loukides, G. and Pissis, SP. (2024) 'Minimizing the Minimizers via Alphabet Reordering'.35th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2024). Fukuoka, Japan. 18 - 27 June. Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs. pp. 28:1 - 28:13. ISSN: 1868-8969 Open Access Link
Ayad, LAK., Loukides, G., Pissis, SP. and Verbeek, H. (2024) 'Sparse Suffix and LCP Array: Simple, Direct, Small, and Fast'.16th Latin American Symposium. Puerto Varas, Chile. 6 - 22 March. Springer Nature Switzerland. pp. 162 - 177. ISSN: 0302-9743 Open Access Link
Ayad, LAK., Chikhi, R. and Pissis, SP. (2023) 'Seedability: optimizing alignment parameters for sensitive sequence comparison'. Bioinformatics Advances, 3 (1). pp. vbad108. ISSN: 2635-0041 Open Access Link
Ayad, L., Pissis, S. and Loukides, G. (2023) 'Text Indexing for Long Patterns: Anchors are All you Need'. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 16 (9). pp. 2117 - 2131. ISSN: 2150-8097 Open Access Link
Ayad, LAK., Badkobeh, G., Fici, G., Héliou, A. and Pissis, SP. (2020) 'Constructing Antidictionaries of Long Texts in Output-Sensitive Space'. Theory of Computing Systems, 65 (5). pp. 777 - 797. ISSN: 1432-4350 Open Access Link
Ayad, LAK., Charalampopoulos, P. and Pissis, SP. (2020) 'SMART: SuperMaximal approximate repeats tool'.BCB '20: 11th ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics. Virtual. 21 - 24 September. ACM. pp. 1 - 1.
Ayad, LAK., Dourou, A-M., Arhondakis, S. and Pissis, SP. (2020) 'IsoXpressor: A tool to assess transcriptional activity within isochores'. Genome Biology and Evolution, 12 (9). pp. 1573 - 1578. ISSN: 1759-6653 Open Access Link
Ayad, LAK., Charalampopoulos, P., Charalampopoulos, P. and Pissis, SP. (2020) 'SMART: SuperMaximal approximate repeats tool'. Bioinformatics, 36 (8). pp. 2589 - 2591. ISSN: 1367-4803
Ayad, LAK., Bernardini, G., Grossi, R., Iliopoulos, CS., Pisanti, N., Pissis, SP. and et al. (2020) 'Longest property-preserved common factor: A new string-processing framework'. Theoretical Computer Science, 812. pp. 244 - 251. ISSN: 0304-3975
Alzamel, M., Ayad, LAK., Bernardini, G., Grossi, R., Iliopoulos, CS., Pisanti, N., et al. (2020) 'Comparing Degenerate Strings'. Fundamenta Informaticae, 175 (1-4). pp. 41 - 58. ISSN: 0169-2968
Ayad, LAK., Chemillier, M. and Pissis, SP. (2018) 'Creating improvisations on chord progressions using suffix trees'. Journal of Mathematics and Music, 12 (3). pp. 233 - 247. ISSN: 1745-9737
Ayad, LAK., Pissis, SP. and Polychronopoulos, D. (2018) 'CNEFinder: Finding conserved non-coding elements in genomes'.The 17th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB 2018). Athens, Greece. 1 - 12 September. Oxford University Press (OUP). pp. i743 - i747. ISSN: 1367-4803 Open Access Link
Ayad, L., Barton, C. and Iliopoulos, C. (2018) 'The 27th London Stringology Days & London Algorithmic Workshop (LSD & LAW) 2019'.LSD & LAW 2019. King's College London.
Ayad, LAK., Barton, C., Charalampopoulos, P., Iliopoulos, CS. and Pissis, SP. (2018) 'Longest common prefixes with k-errors and applications'.25th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE). Lima, PERU. 1 - 11 October. Springer International Publishing. pp. 27 - 41. ISSN: 0302-9743
Ayad, LAK., Bernardini, G., Grossi, R., Iliopoulos, CS., Pisanti, N., Pissis, SP. and et al. (2018) 'Longest property-preserved common factor'.25th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE). Lima, PERU. 1 - 11 October. Springer International Publishing. pp. 42 - 49. ISSN: 0302-9743
Alamro, H., Ayad, LAK., Charalampopoulos, P., Iliopoulos, CS. and Pissis, SP. (2018) 'Longest common prefixes with k-mismatches and applications'.44th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science (SOFSEM). Danube Univ Krems, Krems, AUSTRALIA. 1 - 2 February. Springer International Publishing. pp. 636 - 649. ISSN: 0302-9743
Ayad, LAK., Barton, C. and Pissis, SP. (2017) 'A faster and more accurate heuristic for cyclic edit distance computation'. Pattern Recognition Letters, 88. pp. 81 - 87. ISSN: 0167-8655
Ayad, LAK. and Pissis, SP. (2017) 'MARS: Improving multiple circular sequence alignment using refined sequences'. BMC Genomics, 18 (1). pp. 1 - 10. ISSN: 1471-2164 Open Access Link
Ayad, LAK., Pissis, SP. and Retha, A. (2016) 'libFLASM: A software library for fixed-length approximate string matching'. BMC Bioinformatics, 17 (1). pp. 1 - 12. ISSN: 1471-2105 Open Access Link