This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial
Pattern Matching CPM 2013 held in Bad Herrenalb (near Karlsruhe) Germany in June 2013. The
21 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and
selected from 51 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 non-trivial combinatorial properties of such structures and to exploit
these properties in order to either achieve superior performance for the corresponding
computational problem or pinpoint conditions under which searches cannot be performed
efficiently. The meeting also deals with problems in computational biology data compression
and data mining coding information retrieval natural language processing and pattern
recognition.
