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A set S of vertices of a graph is a defensive alliance if, for each element of S, the majority of its neighbors is in S. The problem of finding a defensive alliance of minimum size in a given graph is NP-hard and there are polynomial-time…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Bernhard Bliem , Stefan Woltran

We study computational complexity of the class of distance-constrained graph labeling problems from the fixed parameter tractability point of view. The parameters studied are neighborhood diversity and clique width. We rephrase the distance…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-12-04 Jiří Fiala , Tomáš Gavenčiak , Dušan Knop , Martin Koutecký , Jan Kratochvíl

In a graph, a vertex dominates itself and its neighbors, and a dominating set is a set of vertices that together dominate the entire graph. Given a graph and two dominating sets of equal size $k$, the {\em Dominating Set Reconfiguration…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Jona Dirks , Alexandre Vigny

A strength of parameterized algorithmics is that each problem can be parameterized by an essentially inexhaustible set of parameters. Usually, the choice of the considered parameter is informed by the theoretical relations between…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Christian Komusiewicz , Nils Morawietz , Frank Sommer , Luca Pascal Staus

The maximum modularity of a graph is a parameter widely used to describe the level of clustering or community structure in a network. Determining the maximum modularity of a graph is known to be NP-complete in general, and in practice a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Kitty Meeks , Fiona Skerman

A mixed graph contains (undirected) edges as well as (directed) arcs, thus generalizing undirected and directed graphs. A proper coloring $c$ of a mixed graph $G$ assigns a positive integer to each vertex such that $c(u)\neq c(v)$ for every…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Antonio Lauerbach , Konstanty Junosza-Szaniawski , Marie Diana Sieper , Alexander Wolff

Dense subgraph extraction is a fundamental problem in graph analysis and data mining, aimed at identifying cohesive and densely connected substructures within a given graph. It plays a crucial role in various domains, including social…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Chia-Yang Hung , Chih-Ya Shen

Parameterized complexity seeks to use input structure to obtain faster algorithms for NP-hard problems. This has been most successful for graphs of low treewidth: Many problems admit fast algorithms relative to treewidth and many of them…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Falko Hegerfeld , Stefan Kratsch

This paper considers the Target Set Selection (TSS) Problem in social networks, a fundamental problem in viral marketing. In the TSS problem, a graph and a threshold value for each vertex of the graph are given. We need to find a minimum…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Md. Samiur Rahman , Mohammad Shamim Ahsan , Cheng-Wu Chen , Vijayakumar Varadarajan

A set $S$ of vertices of a graph is a defensive alliance if, for each element of $S$, the majority of its neighbours are in $S$. We study the parameterized complexity of the Defensive Alliance problem, where the aim is to find a minimum…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Ajinkya Gaikwad , Soumen Maity

We study the parameterized complexity of separating a small set of vertices from a graph by a small vertex-separator. That is, given a graph $G$ and integers $k$, $t$, the task is to find a vertex set $X$ with $|X| \le k$ and $|N(X)| \le…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-10-02 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Janne H. Korhonen

A resolving set $S$ of a graph $G$ is a subset of its vertices such that no two vertices of $G$ have the same distance vector to $S$. The Metric Dimension problem asks for a resolving set of minimum size, and in its decision form, a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Édouard Bonnet , Nidhi Purohit

A vertex set $S$ of a graph $G$ is geodetic if every vertex of $G$ lies on a shortest path between two vertices in $S$. Given a graph $G$ and $k \in \mathbb N$, the NP-hard Geodetic Set problem asks whether there is a geodetic set of size…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Leon Kellerhals , Tomohiro Koana

The theoretical notions of graph classes with bounded expansion and that are nowhere dense are meant to capture structural sparsity of real world networks that can be used to design efficient algorithms. In the area of sparse graphs, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Wojciech Nadara

Hitting Set is a classic problem in combinatorial optimization. Its input consists of a set system F over a finite universe U and an integer t; the question is whether there is a set of t elements that intersects every set in F. The Hitting…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-27 Bart M. P. Jansen

We analyze the computational complexity of the following computational problems called Bounded-Density Edge Deletion and Bounded-Density Vertex Deletion: Given a graph $G$, a budget $k$ and a target density $\tau_\rho$, are there $k$ edges…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Cristina Bazgan , André Nichterlein , Sofia Vazquez Alferez

Let $G$ be a graph with a threshold function $\theta:V(G)\rightarrow \mathbb{N}$ such that $1\leq \theta(v)\leq d_G(v)$ for every vertex $v$ of $G$, where $d_G(v)$ is the degree of $v$ in $G$. Suppose we are given a target set $S\subseteq…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-03-06 Chun-Ying Chiang , Liang-Hao Huang , Hong-Gwa Yeh

In this paper we study the Spanning Tree Congestion problem, where we are given a graph $G=(V,E)$ and are asked to find a spanning tree $T$ of minimum maximum congestion. Here, the congestion of an edge $e\in T$ is the number of edges…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Michael Lampis , Valia Mitsou , Edouard Nemery , Yota Otachi , Manolis Vasilakis , Daniel Vaz

Motivated by the landmark resolution of the 1-2-3 Conjecture, we initiate the study of the parameterized complexity of the Vertex-Coloring {0,1}-Edge-Weighting problem and its generalization, Vertex-Coloring Pre-edge-Weighting, under…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Shubhada Aute , Fahad Panolan , Geevarghese Philip

The target set selection problem (TSS) asks for a set of vertices such that an influence spreading process started in these vertices reaches the whole graph. The current state of the art for this NP-hard problem are three recently proposed…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Benjamin Doerr , Martin S. Krejca , Nguyen Vu