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Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-31 Grigory Yaroslavtsev

The dominating set problem and its generalization, the distance-$r$ dominating set problem, are among the well-studied problems in the sequential settings. In distributed models of computation, unlike for domination, not much is known about…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Saeed Akhoondian Amiri , Ben Wiederhake

Given an edge-weighted graph $G$ on $n$ nodes, the NP-hard Max-Cut problem asks for a node bipartition such that the sum of edge weights joining the different partitions is maximized. We propose a fixed-parameter tractable algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Markus Chimani , Christine Dahn , Martina Juhnke-Kubitzke , Nils M. Kriege , Petra Mutzel , Alexander Nover

Grover's algorithm is a well-known unstructured quantum search algorithm run on quantum computers. It constructs an oracle and calls the oracle O($\sqrt N$) times to locate specific data out of N unsorted data. This represents a quadratic…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Jehn-Ruey Jiang , Qiao-Yi Lin

A dominating set $S$ of graph $G$ is called an $r$-grouped dominating set if $S$ can be partitioned into $S_1,S_2,\ldots,S_k$ such that the size of each unit $S_i$ is $r$ and the subgraph of $G$ induced by $S_i$ is connected. The concept of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Tesshu Hanaka , Hirotaka Ono , Yota Otachi , Saeki Uda

The Densest Subgraph Problem (DSP) is widely used to identify community structures and patterns in networks such as bioinformatics and social networks. While solvable in polynomial time, traditional exact algorithms face computational and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Dorit S. Hochbaum , Ayleen Irribarra-Cortés , Olivier Goldschmidt , Roberto Asín-Achá

The dominating set problem (DSP) is one of the most famous problems in combinatorial optimization. It is defined as follows. For a given simple graph $G=(V,E)$, a dominating set of $G$ is a subset $S\subseteq V$ such that every vertex in $…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Nima Ghanbari , Gerold Jäger , Tuomo Lehtilä

We provide a new constant factor approximation algorithm for the (connected) distance-$r$ dominating set problem on graph classes of bounded expansion. Classes of bounded expansion include many familiar classes of sparse graphs such as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Saeed Akhoondian Amiri , Patrice Ossona de Mendez , Roman Rabinovich , Sebastian Siebertz

A {\em dominating set} of a graph $G=(V,E)$ is a subset of vertices $S\subseteq V$ such that every vertex $v\in V\setminus S$ has at least one neighbor in $S$. Finding a dominating set with the minimum cardinality in a connected graph…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Frank Hernandez , Ernesto Parra , Jose Maria Sigarreta , Nodari Vakhania

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 set $D\subseteq V$ of a graph $G=(V,E)$ is called a restrained dominating set of $G$ if every vertex not in $D$ is adjacent to a vertex in $D$ and to a vertex in $V \setminus D$. The \textsc{Minimum Restrained Domination} problem is to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-06-09 Arti Pandey , B. S. Panda

The Max-Cut problem is a fundamental NP-hard problem, which is attracting attention in the field of quantum computation these days. Regarding the approximation algorithm of the Max-Cut problem, algorithms based on semidefinite programming…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Eiichiro Sato

For many hard computational problems, simple algorithms that run in time $2^n \cdot n^{O(1)}$ arise, say, from enumerating all subsets of a size-$n$ set. Finding (exponentially) faster algorithms is a natural goal that has driven much of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-30 László Kozma , Junqi Tan

In the Independent set problem, the input is a graph $G$, every vertex has a non-negative integer weight, and the task is to find a set $S$ of pairwise non-adjacent vertices, maximizing the total weight of the vertices in $S$. We give an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-02 Daniel Lokshtanov , Marcin Pilipczuk , Erik Jan van Leeuwen

The domination problem is a well-studied problem in graph theory. In this paper, we study two natural variants: the hop domination problem and the $2$-step domination problem. Let $G$ be a graph with vertex set $V$ and edge set $E$. For a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Sandip Das , Sweta Das , Sk Samim Islam

The lower and the upper irredundance numbers of a graph $G$, denoted $ir(G)$ and $IR(G)$ respectively, are conceptually linked to domination and independence numbers and have numerous relations to other graph parameters. It is a…

We investigate how efficiently a well-studied family of domination-type problems can be solved on bounded-treewidth graphs. For sets $\sigma,\rho$ of non-negative integers, a $(\sigma,\rho)$-set of a graph $G$ is a set $S$ of vertices such…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Jacob Focke , Dániel Marx , Fionn Mc Inerney , Daniel Neuen , Govind S. Sankar , Philipp Schepper , Philip Wellnitz

We consider the problems of finding optimal identifying codes, (open) locating-dominating sets and resolving sets of an interval or a permutation graph. In these problems, one asks to find a subset of vertices, normally called a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Florent Foucaud , George B. Mertzios , Reza Naserasr , Aline Parreau , Petru Valicov

We study partial and budgeted versions of the well studied connected dominating set problem. In the partial connected dominating set problem, we are given an undirected graph G = (V,E) and an integer n', and the goal is to find a minimum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-12 Samir Khuller , Manish Purohit , Kanthi Sarpatwar

The three domatic number problem asks whether a given undirected graph can be partitioned into at least three dominating sets, i.e., sets whose closed neighborhood equals the vertex set of the graph. Since this problem is NP-complete, no…

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