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A set $S\subseteq V$ of vertices is an offensive alliance in an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ if each $v\in N(S)$ has at least as many neighbours in $S$ as it has neighbours (including itself) not in $S$. We study the classical and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Ajinkya Gaikwad , Soumen Maity

We study the classical problem of computing geometric thickness, i.e., finding a straight-line drawing of an input graph and a partition of its edges into as few parts as possible so that each part is crossing-free. Since the problem is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Thomas Depian , Simon Dominik Fink , Alexander Firbas , Robert Ganian , Martin Nöllenburg

A graph $G=(V,E)$ is called equidominating if there exists a value $t \in \mathbb{N}$ and a weight function $\omega : V \rightarrow \mathbb{N}$ such that the total weight of a subset $D\subseteq V$ is equal to $t$ if and only if $D$ is a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-12-14 Oliver Schaudt , Fabian Senger

We consider a non-monotone activation process $(X_t)_{t\in\{ 0,1,2,\ldots\}}$ on a graph $G$, where $X_0\subseteq V(G)$, $X_t=\{ u\in V(G):|N_G(u)\cap X_{t-1}|\geq \tau(u)\}$ for every positive integer $t$, and $\tau:V(G)\to \mathbb{Z}$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Julien Baste , Stefan Ehard , Dieter Rautenbach

Finding paths in graphs is a fundamental graph-theoretic task. In this work, we we are concerned with finding a path with some constraints on its length and the number of vertices neighboring the path, that is, being outside of and incident…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Max-Jonathan Luckow , Till Fluschnik

We develop a new framework for generalizing approximation algorithms from the structural graph algorithm literature so that they apply to graphs somewhat close to that class (a scenario we expect is common when working with real-world…

Certifying feasibility in decision-making, critical in many industries, can be framed as a constraint satisfaction problem. This paper focuses on characterising a subset of parameter values from an a priori set that satisfy constraints on a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-14 Max Mowbray , Nilay Shah , Benoît Chachuat

Dense subgraph discovery is a fundamental primitive in graph and hypergraph analysis which among other applications has been used for real-time story detection on social media and improving access to data stores of social networking…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Yufan Huang , David F. Gleich , Nate Veldt

In this paper we study the complexity of the following problems: Given a colored graph X=(V,E,c), compute a minimum cardinality set S of vertices such that no nontrivial automorphism of X fixes all vertices in S. A closely related problem…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-06-15 V. Arvind , Frank Fuhlbrück , Johannes Köbler , Sebastian Kuhnert , Gaurav Rattan

Graph Burning asks, given a graph $G = (V,E)$ and an integer $k$, whether there exists $(b_{0},\dots,b_{k-1}) \in V^{k}$ such that every vertex in $G$ has distance at most $i$ from some $b_{i}$. This problem is known to be NP-complete even…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Yasuaki Kobayashi , Yota Otachi

We consider supervised learning problems where the features are embedded in a graph, such as gene expressions in a gene network. In this context, it is of much interest to automatically select a subgraph with few connected components; by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-09-20 Julien Mairal , Bin Yu

In the classical partial vertex cover problem, we are given a graph $G$ and two positive integers $R$ and $L$. The goal is to check whether there is a subset $V'$ of $V$ of size at most $R$, such that $V'$ covers at least $L$ edges of $G$.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Vahan Mkrtchyan , Garik Petrosyan

The $H$-Coloring problem is a well-known generalization of the classical NP-complete problem $k$-Coloring where the task is to determine whether an input graph admits a homomorphism to the template graph $H$. This problem has been the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Ambroise Baril , Miguel Couceiro , Victor Lagerkvist

We study the algorithmic complexity of partitioning the vertex set of a given (di)graph into a small number of paths. The Path Partition problem (PP) has been studied extensively, as it includes Hamiltonian Path as a special case. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Henning Fernau , Florent Foucaud , Kevin Mann , Utkarsh Padariya , Rajath Rao K. N

We study the generalization of Correlation Clustering which incorporates fairness constraints via the notion of fairlets. The corresponding Fair Correlation Clustering problem has been studied from several perspectives to date, but has so…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Johannes Blaha , Robert Ganian , Katharina Gillig , Jonathan S. Højlev , Simon Wietheger

We introduce and explore a family of vertex-coloring problems which, surprisingly enough, have not been considered before despite stemming from the problem of Wi-Fi channel assignment. Given a spectrum of colors, endowed with a matrix of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-11-19 David Orden , Jose Manuel Gimenez-Guzman , Ivan Marsa-Maestre , Enrique de la Hoz

Streaming is a model where an input graph is provided one edge at a time, instead of being able to inspect it at will. In this work, we take a parameterized approach by assuming a vertex cover of the graph is given, building on work of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Jelle J. Oostveen , Erik Jan van Leeuwen

We consider structural parameterizations of the fundamental Dominating Set problem and its variants in the parameter ecology program. We give improved FPT algorithms and lower bounds under well-known conjectures for dominating set in graphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Dishant Goyal , Ashwin Jacob , Kaushtubh Kumar , Diptapriyo Majumdar , Venkatesh Raman

This paper investigates the complexity of finding secluded paths in graphs. We focus on the \textsc{Short Secluded Path} problem and a natural new variant we introduce, \textsc{Shortest Secluded Path}. Formally, given an undirected graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Tesshu Hanaka , Daisuke Tsuru

The centrality of a vertex v in a network intuitively captures how important v is for communication in the network. The task of improving the centrality of a vertex has many applications, as a higher centrality often implies a larger impact…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-10-05 Clemens Hoffmann , Hendrik Molter , Manuel Sorge