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In this paper, we initiate the study of the vertex coloring problem of a graph in the semi streaming model. In this model, the input graph is defined by a stream of edges, arriving in adversarial order and any algorithm must process the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Suman Kalyan Bera , Prantar Ghosh

Color coding is an algorithmic technique used in parameterized complexity theory to detect "small" structures inside graphs. The idea is to derandomize algorithms that first randomly color a graph and then search for an easily-detectable,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Max Bannach , Till Tantau

The editing of a combinatorial object is the alteration of some of its elements such that the resulting object satisfies a certain fixed property. The edit problem for graphs, when the edges are added or deleted, was first studied…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-24 Maria Axenovich , Ryan R. Martin

The problem of edge coloring has been extensively studied over the years. Recently, this problem has received significant attention in the dynamic setting, where we are given a dynamic graph evolving via a sequence of edge insertions and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Sayan Bhattacharya , Martín Costa , Nadav Panski , Shay Solomon

This paper explores the application of a new algebraic method of color exchanges to the edge coloring of simple graphs. Vizing's theorem states that the edge coloring of a simple graph $G$ requires either $\Delta$ or $\Delta+1$ colors,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-04-12 Tony T. Lee , Yujie Wan , Hao Guan

This paper studies infinite graphs produced from a natural unfolding operation applied to finite graphs. Graphs produced via such operations are of finite degree and automatic over the unary alphabet (that is, they can be described by…

Logic · Mathematics 2008-09-22 Bakhadyr Khoussainov , Jiamou Liu , Mia Minnes

Analogous to regular string and tree languages, regular languages of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) are defined in the literature. Although called regular, those DAG-languages are more powerful and, consequently, standard problems have a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Yvo Ad Meeres

We study the problem of bi-chromatic coloring of hypergraphs in the LOCAL distributed model of computation. This problem can easily be solved by a randomized local algorithm with no communication. However, it is not known how to solve it…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Dariusz R. Kowalski , Piotr Krysta

In the Exact Matching problem, we are given a graph whose edges are colored red or blue and the task is to decide for a given integer k, if there is a perfect matching with exactly k red edges. Since 1987 it is known that the Exact Matching…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Nicolas El Maalouly , Sebastian Haslebacher , Lasse Wulf

The problem of sampling edge-colorings of graphs with maximum degree $\Delta$ has received considerable attention and efficient algorithms are available when the number of colors is large enough with respect to $\Delta$. Vizing's theorem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Lucas De Meyer , František Kardoš , Aurélie Lagoutte , Guillem Perarnau

Distributed vertex coloring is one of the classic problems and probably also the most widely studied problems in the area of distributed graph algorithms. We present a new randomized distributed vertex coloring algorithm for the standard…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Magnús M. Halldórsson , Fabian Kuhn , Yannic Maus , Tigran Tonoyan

Circular coloring is a constraints satisfaction problem where colors are assigned to nodes in a graph in such a way that every pair of connected nodes has two consecutive colors (the first color being consecutive to the last). We study…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-08-31 Christian Schmidt , Nils-Eric Guenther , Lenka Zdeborová

A properly edge-colored graph is a graph with a coloring of its edges such that no vertex is incident to two or more edges of the same color. A subgraph is called rainbow if all its edges have different colors. The problem of finding…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-19 Benny Sudakov

We study a version of online edge coloring, where the goal is to color as many edges as possible using only a given number, $k$, of available colors. All of our results are with regard to competitive analysis. Previous attempts to identify…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Lene M. Favrholdt , Jesper W. Mikkelsen

This paper introduces a natural generalization of the classical edge coloring problem in graphs that provides a useful abstraction for two well-known problems in multicast switching. We show that the problem is NP-hard and evaluate the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-31 Jonathan Turner

We present a simple randomized algorithm that can efficiently maintain a $(\Delta+1)$ coloring as the graph undergoes edge insertion and deletion updates, where $\Delta$ denotes an upper bound on the maximum degree. A key advantage is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Mohsen Ghaffari , Jaehyun Koo

Understanding the role of randomness when solving locally checkable labeling (LCL) problems in the LOCAL model has been one of the top priorities in the research on distributed graph algorithms in recent years. For LCL problems in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Sebastian Brandt , Fabian Kuhn , Zahra Parsaeian

This paper explores the application of a new algebraic method of edge coloring, called complex coloring, to the scheduling problems of input queued switches. The proposed distributed parallel scheduling algorithm possesses two important…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-06-24 Lingkang Wang , Tong Ye , Tony T. Lee , Weisheng Hu

Identifying the sets of operations that can be executed simultaneously is an important problem appearing in many parallel applications. By modeling the operations and their interactions as a graph, one can identify the independent…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-07-28 Ahmet Erdem Sarıyüce , Erik Saule , Ümit V. Çatalyürek

We study the behavior of the Douglas-Rachford algorithm on the graph vertex-coloring problem. Given a graph and a number of colors, the goal is to find a coloring of the vertices so that all adjacent vertex pairs have different colors. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-06 F. J. Aragón Artacho , R. Campoy , V. Elser