Who proposed the concept of Suffix Tree?
(a) Weiner
(b) Samuel F. B. Morse
(c) Friedrich Clemens Gerke
(d) Alexander Morse
This interesting question is from Suffix Tree topic in division Trie of Data Structures & Algorithms I
The question was asked in examination.
1 Answers
Right option is (a) Weiner
The best explanation: In computer science, a suffix tree is also known as PAT tree or position tree. It is a compressed search tree or prefix tree in which keys contain the suffix of text values as the text position. The concept of Suffix Tree was introduced by Weiner in 1973.