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The 2-Vertex-Connected Spanning Subgraph problem (2VCSS) is among the most basic NP-hard (Survivable) Network Design problems: we are given an (unweighted) undirected graph $G$. Our goal is to find a spanning subgraph $S$ of $G$ with the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Miguel Bosch-Calvo , Fabrizio Grandoni , Afrouz Jabal Ameli

We consider the following natural graph cut problem called Critical Node Cut (CNC): Given a graph $G$ on $n$ vertices, and two positive integers $k$ and $x$, determine whether $G$ has a set of $k$ vertices whose removal leaves $G$ with at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-30 Danny Hermelin , Moshe Kaspi , Christian Komusiewicz , Barak Navon

The K-way vertex cut problem} consists in, given a graph G, finding a subset of vertices of a given size, whose removal partitions G into the maximum number of connected components. This problem has many applications in several areas. It…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Mohammed Lalou

The MEG (minimum equivalent graph) problem is, given a directed graph, to find a small subset of the edges that maintains all reachability relations between nodes. The problem is NP-hard. This paper gives a proof that, for graphs where each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Samir Khuller , Balaji Raghavachari , Neal Young

A matching cut is a matching that is also an edge cut. In the problem Minimum Matching Cut, we ask for a matching cut with the minimum number of edges in the matching. We investigate the differences in complexity between Minimum Matching…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Felicia Lucke , Joseph Marchand , Jannik Olbrich

We tackle a stochastic version of the Critical Node Problem (CNP) where the goal is to minimize the pairwise connectivity of a graph by attacking a subset of its nodes. In the stochastic setting considered, the attacks on nodes can fail…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Pierre Hosteins , Rosario Scatamacchia

We study augmenting a plane Euclidean network with a segment, called a shortcut, to minimize the largest distance between any two points along the edges of the resulting network. Problems of this type have received considerable attention…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Delia Garijo , Alberto Márquez , Natalia Rodríguez , Rodrigo I. Silveira

We study the generalized minimum Manhattan network (GMMN) problem: given a set $P$ of pairs of two points in the Euclidean plane $\mathbb{R}^2$, we are required to find a minimum-length geometric network which consists of axis-aligned…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Yuya Masumura , Taihei Oki , Yutaro Yamaguchi

We study the minimum \emph{Monitoring Edge Geodetic Set} (\megset) problem introduced in [Foucaud et al., CALDAM'23]: given a graph $G$, we say that an edge is monitored by a pair $u,v$ of vertices if \emph{all} shortest paths between $u$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Davide Bilò , Giordano Colli , Luca Forlizzi , Stefano Leucci

The Minimum Consistent Subset (MCS) problem arises naturally in the context of supervised clustering and instance selection. In supervised clustering, one aims to infer a meaningful partitioning of data using a small labeled subset.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Aritra Banik , Mano Prakash Parthasarathi , Venkatesh Raman , Diya Roy , Abhishek Sahu

In the context of designing a scalable overlay network to support decentralized topic-based pub/sub communication, the Minimum Topic-Connected Overlay problem (Min-TCO in short) has been investigated: Given a set of t topics and a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-25 Jun Hosoda , Juraj Hromkovic , Taisuke Izumi , Horotaka Ono , Monika Steinova , Koichi Wada

Crossing minimization is one of the central problems in graph drawing. Recently, there has been an increased interest in the problem of minimizing crossings between paths in drawings of graphs. This is the metro-line crossing minimization…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-06-19 Martin Fink , Sergey Pupyrev

Connectivity in temporal graphs relies on the notion of temporal paths, in which edges follow a chronological order (either strict or non-strict). In this work, we investigate the question of how to make a temporal graph connected. More…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-02-21 T. Bellitto , J. Bouton Popper , B. Escoffier

Identifying the connected components of a graph, apart from being a fundamental problem with countless applications, is a key primitive for many other algorithms. In this paper, we consider this problem in parallel settings. Particularly,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Soheil Behnezhad , Laxman Dhulipala , Hossein Esfandiari , Jakub Łącki , Vahab Mirrokni

We study the problem of guaranteeing the connectivity of a given graph by protecting or strengthening edges. Herein, a protected edge is assumed to be robust and will not fail, which features a non-uniform failure model. We introduce the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Felix Hommelsheim , Zhenwei Liu , Nicole Megow , Guochuan Zhang

Many resource allocation problems in the cloud can be described as a basic Virtual Network Embedding Problem (VNEP): finding mappings of request graphs (describing the workloads) onto a substrate graph (describing the physical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Matthias Rost , Stefan Schmid

The minimum conductance problem is an NP-hard graph partitioning problem. Apart from the search for bottlenecks in complex networks, the problem is very closely related to the popular area of network community detection. In this paper, we…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-04-11 David Chalupa

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…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Dušan Knop , Nikolaos Melissinos , Manolis Vasilakis

We show the first near-linear time randomized algorithms for listing all minimum vertex cuts of polylogarithmic size that separate the graph into at least three connected components (also known as shredders) and for finding the most…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Kevin Hua , Daniel Li , Jaewoo Park , Thatchaphol Saranurak

A disconnected cut of a connected graph is a vertex cut that itself also induces a disconnected subgraph. The decision problem whether a graph has a disconnected cut is called Disconnected Cut. This problem is closely related to several…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Barnaby Martin , Daniel Paulusma , Erik Jan van Leeuwen