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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

The classical NP-hard feedback arc set problem (FASP) and feedback vertex set problem (FVSP) ask for a minimum set of arcs $\varepsilon \subseteq E$ or vertices $\nu \subseteq V$ whose removal $G\setminus \varepsilon$, $G\setminus \nu$…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Michael Hecht , Krzysztof Gonciarz , Szabolcs Horvát

For a finite set $\mathcal{F}$ of graphs, the $\mathcal{F}$-Hitting problem aims to compute, for a given graph $G$ (taken from some graph class $\mathcal{G}$) of $n$ vertices (and $m$ edges) and a parameter $k\in\mathbb{N}$, a set $S$ of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Daniel Lokshtanov , Fahad Panolan , Saket Saurabh , Jie Xue , Meirav Zehavi

Given an undirected graph G = (V, E) and an integer k, the s-Club asks if Gcontains a vertex subset S of at least k vertices such that G[S] has diameter at most s. Recently, Vertex r-Triangle s-Club, and Edge r-Triangle s-Club that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Ashwin Jacob , Diptapriyo Majumdar , Raghav Sakhuja

In Maximum $k$-Vertex Cover (Max $k$-VC), the input is an edge-weighted graph $G$ and an integer $k$, and the goal is to find a subset $S$ of $k$ vertices that maximizes the total weight of edges covered by $S$. Here we say that an edge is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Pasin Manurangsi

An induced subgraph is called an induced matching if each vertex is a degree-1 vertex in the subgraph. The \textsc{Almost Induced Matching} problem asks whether we can delete at most $k$ vertices from the input graph such that the remaining…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Yuxi Liu , Mingyu Xiao

We consider the Sparse Hitting Set (Sparse-HS) problem, where we are given a set system $(V,\mathcal{F},\mathcal{B})$ with two families $\mathcal{F},\mathcal{B}$ of subsets of $V$. The task is to find a hitting set for $\mathcal{F}$ that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Johannes Blum , Yann Disser , Andreas Emil Feldmann , Siddharth Gupta , Anna Zych-Pawlewicz

Consider a vertex-weighted graph $G$ with a source $s$ and a target $t$. Tracking Paths requires finding a minimum weight set of vertices (trackers) such that the sequence of trackers in each path from $s$ to $t$ is unique. In this work, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Václav Blažej , Pratibha Choudhary , Dušan Knop , Jan Matyáš Křišťan , Ondřej Suchý , Tomáš Valla

The Kneser graph $K(n,k)$ is defined for integers $n$ and $k$ with $n \geq 2k$ as the graph whose vertices are all the $k$-subsets of $[n]=\{1,2,\ldots,n\}$ where two such sets are adjacent if they are disjoint. The Schrijver graph $S(n,k)$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Ishay Haviv

The basic (and traditional) crossing number problem is to determine the minimum number of crossings in a topological drawing of an input graph in the plane. We develop a unified framework yielding fixed-parameter tractable (FPT) algorithms…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Éric Colin de Verdière , Petr Hliněný

Given a graph $G=(V,E)$ and a set $S_0\subseteq V$, an irreversible $k$-threshold conversion process on $G$ is an iterative process wherein, for each $t=1,2,\dots$, $S_t$ is obtained from $S_{t-1}$ by adjoining all vertices that have at…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-12-11 C. M. Mynhardt , J. L. Wodlinger

There is substantial literature dealing with fixed parameter algorithms for the dominating set problem on various families of graphs. In this paper, we give a $k^{O(dk)} n$ time algorithm for finding a dominating set of size at most $k$ in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Noga Alon , Shai Gutner

We study the parameterized complexity of the T(h+1)-Free Edge Deletion problem. Given a graph G and integers k and h, the task is to delete at most k edges so that every connected component of the resulting graph has size at most h. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Ajinkya Gaikwad , Soumen Maity , Leeja R

Given $k$ input graphs $G_1, \dots ,G_k$, where each pair $G_i$, $G_j$ with $i \neq j$ shares the same graph $G$, the problem Simultaneous Embedding With Fixed Edges (SEFE) asks whether there exists a planar drawing for each input graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Simon D. Fink , Matthias Pfretzschner , Ignaz Rutter

A classic result of Lenstra [Math.~Oper.~Res.~1983] says that an integer linear program can be solved in fixed-parameter tractable (FPT) time for the parameter being the number of variables. We extend this result by incorporating…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Robert Bredereck , Piotr Faliszewski , Rolf Niedermeier , Piotr Skowron , Nimrod Talmon

Given a graph and two vertex sets satisfying a certain feasibility condition, a reconfiguration problem asks whether we can reach one vertex set from the other by repeating prescribed modification steps while maintaining feasibility. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Tatsuya Gima , Takehiro Ito , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Yota Otachi

Let G=(A,B,E) be a bipartite graph with color classes A and B. The graph G is chordal bipartite if G has no induced cycle of length more than four. Let G=(V,E) be a graph. A feedback vertex set F is a set of vertices F subset V such that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-16 Ton Kloks , Ching-Hao Liu , Sheung-Hung Poon

We present a parameterized dichotomy for the \textsc{$k$-Sparsest Cut} problem in weighted and unweighted versions. In particular, we show that the weighted \textsc{$k$-Sparsest Cut} problem is NP-hard for every $k\geq 3$ even on graphs…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Ramin Javadi , Amir Nikabadi

In this paper we consider the k-set agreement problem in distributed message-passing systems using a round-based approach: Both synchrony of communication and failures are captured just by means of the messages that arrive within a round,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Martin Biely , Peter Robinson , Ulrich Schmid

The three-in-a-tree problem asks for an induced tree of the input graph containing three mandatory vertices. In 2006, Chudnovsky and Seymour [Combinatorica, 2010] presented the first polynomial time algorithm for this problem, which has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Guilherme C. M. Gomes , Vinicius F. dos Santos , Murilo V. G. da Silva , Jayme L. Szwarcfiter