This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial
Pattern Matching CPM 2015 held on Ischia Island Italy in June July 2015. The 34 revised
full papers presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from
83 submissions. The papers address issues of searching and matching strings and more
complicated patterns such as trees regular expressions graphs point sets and arrays. The
goal is to derive combinatorial properties of such structures and to exploit these properties
in order to achieve superior performance for the corresponding computational problems. The
meeting also deals with problems in computational biology data compression and data mining
coding information retrieval natural language processing and pattern recognition.
