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Shortest Common Superstring
By albeXL, history, 7 years ago, In English

Can someone help me solve this problem? Given N <= 16 strings I need to find the shortest(in length) string that contains all N strings as a substring, in case of a tie I need to find the smallest one in lexicographic order. Thanks in advance

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And what about length of the strings?

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Depending on lengths of the strings this can be the same or an easier version of : http://codeforces.net/problemset/gymProblem/101064/E

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length of strings is at most 100

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Construct an Aho-Corasick automaton and do a BFS for find the shortest path that goes through every final state.

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