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A graph $G$ covers a graph $H$ if there exists a locally bijective homomorphism from $G$ to $H$. We deal with regular covers where this homomorphism is prescribed by the action of a semiregular subgroup of $\textrm{Aut}(G)$. We study…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Jiří Fiala , Pavel Klavík , Jan Kratochvíl , Roman Nedela

{\em Partial domination problem} is a generalization of the {\em minimum dominating set problem} on graphs. Here, instead of dominating all the nodes, one asks to dominate at least a fraction of the nodes of the given graph by choosing a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Madhura Dutta , Anil Maheshwari , Subhas C. Nandy , Bodhayan Roy

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

We initiate the study of computational complexity of graph coverings, aka locally bijective graph homomorphisms, for {\em graphs with semi-edges}. The notion of graph covering is a discretization of coverings between surfaces or topological…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Jan Bok , Jiří Fiala , Petr Hliněný , Nikola Jedličková , Jan Kratochvíl

Algorithmic extension problems of partial graph representations such as planar graph drawings or geometric intersection representations are of growing interest in topological graph theory and graph drawing. In such an extension problem, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Eduard Eiben , Robert Ganian , Thekla Hamm , Fabian Klute , Martin Nöllenburg

An $\ell$-page stack layout (also known as an $\ell$-page book embedding) of a graph is a linear order of the vertex set together with a partition of the edge set into $\ell$ stacks (or pages), such that the endpoints of no two edges on the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Thomas Depian , Simon D. Fink , Robert Ganian , Martin Nöllenburg

In this paper we present a new semidefinite programming hierarchy for covering problems in compact metric spaces. Over the last years, these kind of hierarchies were developed primarily for geometric packing and for energy minimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Cordian Riener , Jan Rolfes , Frank Vallentin

We study the following two fixed-cardinality optimization problems (a maximization and a minimization variant). For a fixed $\alpha$ between zero and one we are given a graph and two numbers $k \in \mathbb{N}$ and $t \in \mathbb{Q}$. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Tomohiro Koana , Christian Komusiewicz , André Nichterlein , Frank Sommer

Structural graph parameters play an important role in parameterized complexity, including in kernelization. Notably, vertex cover, neighborhood diversity, twin-cover, and modular-width have been studied extensively in the last few years.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Manuel Lafond , Weidong Luo

The parameterized analysis of graph modification problems represents the most extensively studied area within Parameterized Complexity. Given a graph $G$ and an integer $k\in\mathbb{N}$ as input, the goal is to determine whether we can…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Tanmay Inamdar , Saket Saurabh , Meirav Zehavi

Shifted combinatorial optimization is a new nonlinear optimization framework which is a broad extension of standard combinatorial optimization, involving the choice of several feasible solutions at a time. This framework captures well…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Jakub Gajarský , Petr Hliněný , Martin Koutecký , Shmuel Onn

We investigate structural parameterizations of two identification problems: LOCATING-DOMINATING SET and TEST COVER. In the first problem, an input is a graph $G$ on $n$ vertices and an integer $k$, and one asks if there is a subset $S$ of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Dipayan Chakraborty , Florent Foucaud , Diptapriyo Majumdar , Prafullkumar Tale

We study a recently introduced generalization of the Vertex Cover (VC) problem, called Power Vertex Cover (PVC). In this problem, each edge of the input graph is supplied with a positive integer demand. A solution is an assignment of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Eric Angel , Evripidis Bampis , Bruno Escoffier , Michael Lampis

Parameterized complexity enables the practical solution of generally intractable NP-hard problems when certain parameters are small, making it particularly useful in real-world applications. The study of string problems in this framework…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Josh Cudby , Sergii Strelchuk

A strength of parameterized algorithmics is that each problem can be parameterized by an essentially inexhaustible set of parameters. Usually, the choice of the considered parameter is informed by the theoretical relations between…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Christian Komusiewicz , Nils Morawietz , Frank Sommer , Luca Pascal Staus

Capacitated Domination generalizes the classic Dominating Set problem by specifying for each vertex a required demand and an available capacity for covering demand in its closed neighborhood. The objective is to find a minimum-sized set of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Amariah Becker

In the context of the chromatic-number problem, a critical graph is an instance where the deletion of any element would decrease the graph's chromatic number. Such instances have shown to be interesting objects of study for deepen the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-07-13 Andreas Jakoby , Naveen Kumar Goswami , Eik List , Stefan Lucks

We study the parameterized complexity of interdiction problems in graphs. For an optimization problem on graphs, one can formulate an interdiction problem as a game consisting of two players, namely, an interdictor and an evader, who…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-01-14 Jiong Guo , Yash Raj Shrestha

There has been intensive work on the parameterized complexity of the typically NP-hard task to edit undirected graphs into graphs fulfilling certain given vertex degree constraints. In this work, we lift the investigations to the case of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Robert Bredereck , Vincent Froese , Marcel Koseler , Marcelo Garlet Millani , André Nichterlein , Rolf Niedermeier

Parameterized analysis provides powerful mechanisms for obtaining fine-grained insights into different types of algorithms. In this work, we combine this field with evolutionary algorithms and provide parameterized complexity analysis of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-22 Samuel Baguley , Tobias Friedrich , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann , Marcus Pappik , Ziena Zeif