• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.15A no.4
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• pp.239-242
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• 2008

We study the problem of finding the maximum suffix of a string on the external memory model of computation with one disk. In this model, we are primarily interested in designing algorithms that reduce the number of I/Os between the disk and the internal memory. A string of length N has N suffixes and among these, the lexicographically largest one is called the maximum suffix of the string. Finding the maximum suffix of a string plays a crucial role in solving some string problems. In this paper, we present an external memory algorithm for computing the maximum suffix of a string of length N. The algorithm uses four blocks in the internal memory and performs at most 4(N/L) disk I/Os, where L is the size of a block.