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We study how to sparsify connectivity in graphs under a tight deletion budget. Given a graph $G$ and integers $k,x \ge 0$, Critical Node Cut (CNC) asks whether we can delete at most $k$ vertices so that the number of remaining unordered…

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Given a graph $G$ with source and destination vertices $s,t\in V(G)$ respectively, \textsc{Tracking Paths} asks for a minimum set of vertices $T\subseteq V(G)$, such that the sequence of vertices encountered in each simple path from $s$ to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Pratibha Choudhary , Venkatesh Raman

We study a variant of Set Cover where each element of the universe has some demand that determines how many times the element needs to be covered. Moreover, we examine two generalizations of this problem when a set can be included multiple…

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Deciding feasibility of large systems of linear equations and inequalities is one of the most fundamental algorithmic tasks. However, due to data inaccuracies or modeling errors, in practical applications one often faces linear systems that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Kristóf Bérczi , Alexander Göke , Lydia Mirabel Mendoza-Cadena , Matthias Mnich

We study the parameterized complexity of the $s$-Club Cluster Edge Deletion problem: Given a graph $G$ and two integers $s \ge 2$ and $k \ge 1$, is it possible to remove at most $k$ edges from $G$ such that each connected component of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Fabrizio Montecchiani , Giacomo Ortali , Tommaso Piselli , Alessandra Tappini

{\sc Vertex $(s, t)$-Cut} and {\sc Vertex Multiway Cut} are two fundamental graph separation problems in algorithmic graph theory. We study matroidal generalizations of these problems, where in addition to the usual input, we are given a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Aritra Banik , Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Tanmay Inamdar , Satyabrata Jana , Saket Saurabh

For an undirected edge-weighted graph $G$ and a set $R$ of pairs of vertices called pairs of terminals, a multicut is a set of edges such that removing these edges from $G$ disconnects each pair in $R$. We provide an algorithm computing a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Éric Colin de Verdière , Arnaud de Mesmay

We study several problems related to graph modification problems under connectivity constraints from the perspective of parameterized complexity: {\sc (Weighted) Biconnectivity Deletion}, where we are tasked with deleting~$k$ edges while…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Gregory Gutin , M. S. Ramanujan , Felix Reidl , Magnus Wahlström

Temporal graphs are introduced to model systems where the relationships among the entities of the system evolve over time. In this paper, we consider the temporal graphs where the edge set changes with time and all the changes are known a…

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The Satisfactory Partition problem consists in deciding if the set of vertices of a given undirected graph can be partitioned into two nonempty parts such that each vertex has at least as many neighbours in its part as in the other part.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Ajinkya Gaikwad , Soumen Maity , Shuvam Kant Tripathi

A graph $H$ is {\em $p$-edge colorable} if there is a coloring $\psi: E(H) \rightarrow \{1,2,\dots,p\}$, such that for distinct $uv, vw \in E(H)$, we have $\psi(uv) \neq \psi(vw)$. The {\sc Maximum Edge-Colorable Subgraph} problem takes as…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Akanksha Agrawal , Madhumita Kundu , Abhishek Sahu , Saket Saurabh , Prafullkumar Tale

In the {\sc Vertex Multicut} problem the input consists of a graph $G$, integer $k$, and a set $\mathbf{T} = \{(s_1, t_1), \ldots, (s_p, t_p)\}$ of pairs of vertices of $G$. The task is to find a set $X$ of at most $k$ vertices such that,…

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An instance of the graph-constrained max-cut (GCMC) problem consists of (i) an undirected graph G and (ii) edge-weights on a complete undirected graph on the same vertex set. The objective is to find a subset of vertices satisfying some…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Jon Lee , Viswanath Nagarajan , Xiangkun Shen

A decision problem is called parameterized if its input is a pair of strings. One of these strings is referred to as a parameter. The problem: given a propositional logic program P and a non-negative integer k, decide whether P has a stable…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Zbigniew Lonc , Miroslaw Truszczynski

The input of the Maximum Colored Cut problem consists of a graph $G=(V,E)$ with an edge-coloring $c:E\to \{1,2,3,\ldots , p\}$ and a positive integer $k$, and the question is whether $G$ has a nontrivial edge cut using at least $k$ colors.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Luerbio Faria , Sulamita Klein , Ignasi Sau , Uéverton S. Souza , Rubens Sucupira

In this paper we study the fixed-parameter tractability of the problem of deciding whether a given temporal graph admits a temporal walk that visits all vertices (temporal exploration) or, in some problem variants, a certain subset of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Thomas Erlebach , Jakob T. Spooner

The leafage of a chordal graph G is the minimum integer l such that G can be realized as an intersection graph of subtrees of a tree with l leaves. We consider structural parameterization by the leafage of classical domination and cut…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Esther Galby , Daniel Marx , Philipp Schepper , Roohani Sharma , Prafullkumar Tale

Given a graph G, a matching is a subset of edges of G that do not share an endpoint. A matching M is uniquely restricted if the subgraph induced by the endpoints of the edges of M has exactly one perfect matching. Given a graph G and a…

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Given a simple connected undirected graph G = (V, E), a set X \subseteq V(G), and integers k and p, STEINER SUBGRAPH EXTENSION problem asks if there exists a set S \supseteq X with at most k vertices such that G[S] is p-edge-connected. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Eduard Eiben , Diptapriyo Majumdar , M. S. Ramanujan

Given a graph $G = (V, E)$, a non-empty set $S \subseteq V$ is a defensive alliance, if for every vertex $v \in S$, the majority of its closed neighbours are in $S$, that is, $|N_G[v] \cap S| \geq |N_G[v] \setminus S|$. The decision version…

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