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We combine integer linear programming and recent advances in Monadic Second-Order model checking to obtain two new algorithmic meta-theorems for graphs of bounded vertex-cover. The first shows that cardMSO1, an extension of the well-known…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-06-25 Robert Ganian , Jan Obdržálek

We study Clustered Planarity with Linear Saturators, which is the problem of augmenting an $n$-vertex planar graph whose vertices are partitioned into independent sets (called clusters) with paths - one for each cluster - that connect all…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Giordano Da Lozzo , Robert Ganian , Siddharth Gupta , Bojan Mohar , Sebastian Ordyniak , Meirav Zehavi

A connected graph has a $(k,\ell)$-cover if each of its edges is contained in at least $\ell$ cliques of order $k$. Motivated by recent advances in extremal combinatorics and the literature on edge modification problems, we study the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Amirali Madani , Anil Maheshwari , Babak Miraftab , Bodhayan Roy

In the constrained planarity setting, we ask whether a graph admits a planar drawing that additionally satisfies a given set of constraints. These constraints are often derived from very natural problems; prominent examples are Level…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Simon D. Fink , Ignaz Rutter

Graph-modification problems, where we modify a graph by adding or deleting vertices or edges or contracting edges to obtain a graph in a {\it simpler} class, is a well-studied optimization problem in all algorithmic paradigms including…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Ashwin Jacob , Jari J. H. de Kroon , Diptapriyo Majumdar , Venkatesh Raman

A graph $G$ is $F$-saturated if $G$ is $F$-free but for any edge $e$ in the complement of $G$ the graph $G + e$ contains $F$. Gerbner et al. (Discrete Math., 345 (2022), 112921) initiated the study of $rsat(n,F)$, the minimum number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Gang Yang , Zixuan Yang , Shenggui Zhang

A graph is rectilinear planar if it admits a planar orthogonal drawing without bends. While testing rectilinear planarity is NP-hard in general (Garg and Tamassia, 2001), it is a long-standing open problem to establish a tight upper bound…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Walter Didimo , Michael Kaufmann , Giuseppe Liotta , Giacomo Ortali

Subgraph complementation is an operation that toggles all adjacencies inside a selected vertex set. Given a graph \(G\) and a target class \(\mathcal{C}\), the Minimum Subgraph Complementation problem asks for a minimum-size vertex set…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Juan Gutiérrez , Sagartanu Pal

Given a graph $G$, a set $T$ of terminal vertices, and a demand graph $H$ on $T$, the \textsc{Multicut} problem asks for a set of edges of minimum weight that separates the pairs of terminals specified by the edges of $H$. The…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Florian Hörsch , Dániel Marx

The NP-hard general factor problem asks, given a graph and for each vertex a list of integers, whether the graph has a spanning subgraph where each vertex has a degree that belongs to its assigned list. The problem remains NP-hard even if…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Gregory Gutin , Eun Jung Kim , Arezou Soleimanfallah , Stefan Szeider , Anders Yeo

A monitoring edge-geodetic set of a graph is a subset $M$ of its vertices such that for every edge $e$ in the graph, deleting $e$ increases the distance between at least one pair of vertices in $M$. We study the following computational…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Florent Foucaud , Clara Marcille , R. B. Sandeep , Sagnik Sen , S Taruni

Simultaneous Embedding with Fixed Edges (SEFE) is a problem where given $k$ planar graphs we ask whether they can be simultaneously embedded so that the embedding of each graph is planar and common edges are drawn the same. Problems of SEFE…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-12-04 Matěj Konečný , Stanislav Kučera , Jana Novotná , Jakub Pekárek , Martin Smolík , Jakub Tětek , Martin Töpfer

We investigate the problem of constructing planar drawings with few bends for two related problems, the partially embedded graph problem---to extend a straight-line planar drawing of a subgraph to a planar drawing of the whole graph---and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-10-31 Timothy M. Chan , Fabrizio Frati , Carsten Gutwenger , Anna Lubiw , Petra Mutzel , Marcus Schaefer

We propose two fixed-parameter tractable algorithms for the weighted Max-Cut problem on embedded 1-planar graphs parameterized by the crossing number $k$ of the given embedding. A graph is called 1-planar if it can be drawn in the plane…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Christine Dahn , Nils M. Kriege , Petra Mutzel , Julian Schilling

We study the following combinatorial problem. Given a planar graph $G=(V,E)$ and a set of simple cycles $\mathcal C$ in $G$, find a planar embedding $\mathcal E$ of $G$ such that the number of cycles in $\mathcal C$ that bound a face in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-07-11 Giordano Da Lozzo , Ignaz Rutter

Given a graph, when can we orient the edges to satisfy local constraints at the vertices, where each vertex specifies which local orientations of its incident edges are allowed? This family of graph orientation problems is a special kind of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-03-05 MIT Hardness Group , Zachary Abel , Erik D. Demaine , Jenny Diomidova , Jeffery Li , Zixiang Zhou

In the k-Apex problem the task is to find at most k vertices whose deletion makes the given graph planar. The graphs for which there exists a solution form a minor closed class of graphs, hence by the deep results of Robertson and Seymour,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-12-31 Dániel Marx , Ildikó Schlotter

For a given graph $\mathcal{G}$ of order $n$ with $m$ edges, and a real symmetric matrix associated to the graph, $M\left(\mathcal{G}\right)\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$, the interlacing graph reduction problem is to find a graph…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-08-11 Noam Leiter , Daniel Zelazo

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

We study multi-budgeted variants of the classic minimum cut problem and graph separation problems that turned out to be important in parameterized complexity: Skew Multicut and Directed Feedback Arc Set. In our generalization, we assign…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Stefan Kratsch , Shaohua Li , Dániel Marx , Marcin Pilipczuk , Magnus Wahlström