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David Hayes, Richard Stallman, and Len Tower. Wayne Davison designed and
implemented the unified output format. The basic algorithm is described
by Eugene W. Myers in ``An O(ND) Difference Algorithm and its Variations'',
-@cite{Algorithmica} Vol.@: 1 No.@: 2, 1986, pp.@: 251--266; and in ``A File
+@cite{Algorithmica} Vol.@: 1, 1986, pp.@: 251--266,
+@url{http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01840446}; and in ``A File
Comparison Program'', Webb Miller and Eugene W. Myers,
-@cite{Software---Practice and Experience} Vol.@: 15 No.@: 11, 1985,
-pp.@: 1025--1040.
+@cite{Software---Practice and Experience} Vol.@: 15, 1985,
+pp.@: 1025--1040,
+@url{http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/spe.4380151102}.
@c From: "Gene Myers" <gene@cs.arizona.edu>
@c They are about the same basic algorithm; the Algorithmica
@c paper gives a rigorous treatment and the sub-algorithm for
@c delivering scripts and should be the primary reference, but
@c both should be mentioned.
-The algorithm was independently discovered as described by E. Ukkonen in
+The algorithm was independently discovered as described by Esko Ukkonen in
``Algorithms for Approximate String Matching'',
-@cite{Information and Control} Vol.@: 64, 1985, pp.@: 100--118.
+@cite{Information and Control} Vol.@: 64, 1985, pp.@: 100--118,
+@url{http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0019-9958(85)80046-2}.
@c From: "Gene Myers" <gene@cs.arizona.edu>
@c Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 08:27:55 MST
@c Ukkonen should be given credit for also discovering the algorithm used
@c in GNU diff.
-Unless the @option{--minimal} option is used, @command{diff} uses a
-heuristic by Paul Eggert that limits the cost to @math{O(N^1.5 log N)}
-at the price of producing suboptimal output for large inputs with many
-differences. Related algorithms are surveyed by Alfred V. Aho in
+Related algorithms are surveyed by Alfred V. Aho in
section 6.3 of ``Algorithms for Finding Patterns in Strings'',
@cite{Handbook of Theoretical Computer Science} (Jan Van Leeuwen,
ed.), Vol.@: A, @cite{Algorithms and Complexity}, Elsevier/MIT Press,