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Treewidth is an important graph invariant, relevant for both structural and algorithmic reasons. A necessary condition for a graph class to have bounded treewidth is the absence of large cliques. We study graph classes closed under taking…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-09 Clément Dallard , Martin Milanič , Kenny Štorgel

Treewidth is a graph parameter that plays a fundamental role in several structural and algorithmic results. We study the problem of decomposing a given graph $G$ into node-disjoint subgraphs, where each subgraph has sufficiently large…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-08 Chandra Chekuri , Julia Chuzhoy

Given a graph $G$ and an integer $b$, Bandwidth asks whether there exists a bijection $\pi$ from $V(G)$ to $\{1, \ldots, |V(G)|\}$ such that $\max_{\{u, v \} \in E(G)} | \pi(u) - \pi(v) | \leq b$. This is a classical NP-complete problem,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Tatsuya Gima , Eun Jung Kim , Noleen Köhler , Nikolaos Melissinos , Manolis Vasilakis

Given a multigraph $G$ whose edges are colored from the set $[q]:=\{1,2,\ldots,q\}$ (\emph{$q$-colored graph}), and a vector $\alpha=(\alpha_1,\ldots,\alpha_{q}) \in \mathbb{N}^{q}$ (\emph{color-constraint}), a subgraph $H$ of $G$ is called…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-19 P. S. Ardra , Jasine Babu , R. Krithika , Deepak Rajendraprasad

We consider the minimum spanning tree problem in a setting where information about the edge weights of the given graph is uncertain. Initially, for each edge $e$ of the graph only a set $A_e$, called an uncertainty area, that contains the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-02-21 Thomas Erlebach , Michael Hoffmann , Danny Krizanc , Matús Mihal'ák , Rajeev Raman

We study the complexity of a generic hitting problem H-Subgraph Hitting, where given a fixed pattern graph $H$ and an input graph $G$, the task is to find a set $X \subseteq V(G)$ of minimum size that hits all subgraphs of $G$ isomorphic to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Marek Cygan , Dániel Marx , Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Pilipczuk

We present the first results on the parameterized complexity of reconfiguration problems, where a reconfiguration version of an optimization problem $Q$ takes as input two feasible solutions $S$ and $T$ and determines if there is a sequence…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-08-23 Amer E. Mouawad , Naomi Nishimura , Venkatesh Raman , Narges Simjour , Akira Suzuki

We introduce a class of budgeted prize-collecting covering subgraph problems. For an input graph with prizes on the vertices and costs on the edges, the aim of these problems is to find a connected subgraph such that the cost of its edges…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-05 Nicola Morandi , Roel Leus , Hande Yaman

We study the NP-hard Minimum Shared Edges (MSE) problem on graphs: decide whether it is possible to route $p$ paths from a start vertex to a target vertex in a given graph while using at most $k$ edges more than once. We show that MSE can…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-06-08 Till Fluschnik , Meike Hatzel , Steffen Härtlein , Hendrik Molter , Henning Seidler

The problems studied in this article originate from the Graph Motif problem introduced by Lacroix et al. in the context of biological networks. The problem is to decide if a vertex-colored graph has a connected subgraph whose colors equal a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-02-27 Sylvain Guillemot , Florian Sikora

Given an n-vertex graph G, a drawing of G in the plane is a mapping of its vertices into points of the plane, and its edges into continuous curves, connecting the images of their endpoints. A crossing in such a drawing is a point where two…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-10-20 Julia Chuzhoy , Yury Makarychev , Anastasios Sidiropoulos

A signed tree-coloring of a signed graph $(G,\sigma)$ is a vertex coloring $c$ so that $G^{c}(i,\pm)$ is a forest for every $i\in c(u)$ and $u\in V(G)$, where $G^{c}(i,\pm)$ is the subgraph of $(G,\sigma)$ whose vertex set is the set of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-11 Weichan Liu , Chen Gong , Lifang Wu , Xin Zhang

Given a set of obstacles and two points, is there a path between the two points that does not cross more than $k$ different obstacles? This is a fundamental problem that has undergone a tremendous amount of work. It is known to be NP-hard,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Eduard Eiben , Iyad Kanj

The Maximum Agreement Forest problem has been extensively studied in phylogenetics. Most previous work is on two binary phylogenetic trees. In this paper, we study a generalized version of the problem: the Maximum Agreement Forest problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Feng Shi , Jianer Chen , Qilong Feng , Jianxin Wang

In this article, we study the Euclidean minimum spanning tree problem in an imprecise setup. The problem is known as the \emph{Minimum Spanning Tree Problem with Neighborhoods} in the literature. We study the problem where the neighborhoods…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Sanjana Dey , Ramesh K. Jallu , Subhas C. Nandy

The crossing number of a graph is the minimum number of edge crossings that a graph can have when drawn in the plane. Determining this number, known as the Crossing Number problem, is a celebrated problem in combinatorial optimization. It…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Petr Hliněný , Liana Khazaliya

The shortest path problem in graphs is a cornerstone of AI theory and applications. Existing algorithms generally ignore edge weight computation time. We present a generalized framework for weighted directed graphs, where edge weight can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Eyal Weiss , Ariel Felner , Gal A. Kaminka

In the Properly Colored Spanning Tree problem, we are given an edge-colored undirected graph and the goal is to find a spanning tree in which any two adjacent edges have distinct colors. Since finding such a tree is NP-hard in general,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yuhang Bai , Kristóf Bérczi

For a tree decomposition $\mathcal{T}$ of a graph $G$, by $\mu(\mathcal{T})$ we denote the size of a largest induced matching in $G$ all of whose edges intersect one bag of $\mathcal{T}$. Induced matching treewidth of a graph $G$ is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Paloma T. Lima , Martin Milanič , Peter Muršič , Karolina Okrasa , Paweł Rzążewski , Kenny Štorgel

We study the minimum spanning arborescence problem on the complete digraph $\vec{K}_n$ where an edge $e$ has a weight $W_e$ and a cost $C_e$, each of which is an independent uniform random variable $U^\alpha$ where $\alpha\leq 1$ and $U$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Alan Frieze , Tomasz Tkocz