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Computing a (short) path between two vertices is one of the most fundamental primitives in graph algorithmics. In recent years, the study of paths in temporal graphs, that is, graphs where the vertex set is fixed but the edge set changes…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Arnaud Casteigts , Anne-Sophie Himmel , Hendrik Molter , Philipp Zschoche

In the Directed Disjoint Paths problem, we are given a digraph $D$ and a set of requests $\{(s_1, t_1), \ldots, (s_k, t_k)\}$, and the task is to find a collection of pairwise vertex-disjoint paths $\{P_1, \ldots, P_k\}$ such that each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Raul Lopes , Ignasi Sau

In this paper, we present fixed-parameter tractability algorithms for both the undirected and directed versions of the Spanning Tree Isomorphism Problem, parameterized by the size $k$ of a redundant set. A redundant set is a collection of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Fangjian Shen , Yicheng Zheng , Wushao Wen , Hankz Hankui Zhuo

In this paper we revisit the classical Edge Disjoint Paths (EDP) problem, where one is given an undirected graph G and a set of terminal pairs P and asks whether G contains a set of pairwise edge-disjoint paths connecting every terminal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Robert Ganian , Sebastian Ordyniak , M. S. Ramanujan

Among the most fundamental graph parameters is the Diameter, the largest distance between any pair of vertices. Computing the Diameter of a graph with $m$ edges requires $m^{2-o(1)}$ time under the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis (SETH),…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Mina Dalirrooyfard , Nicole Wein

In this paper we provide a $\tilde{O}(m\sqrt{n})$ time algorithm that computes a $3$-multiplicative approximation of the girth of a $n$-node $m$-edge directed graph with non-negative edge lengths. This is the first algorithm which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Shiri Chechik , Yang P. Liu , Omer Rotem , Aaron Sidford

In the Disjoint Paths problem, the input is an undirected graph $G$ on $n$ vertices and a set of $k$ vertex pairs, $\{s_i,t_i\}_{i=1}^k$, and the task is to find $k$ pairwise vertex-disjoint paths connecting $s_i$ to $t_i$. The problem was…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Daniel Lokshtanov , Pranabendu Misra , Michal Pilipczuk , Saket Saurabh , Meirav Zehavi

Timely delivery and optimal routing remain fundamental challenges in the modern logistics industry. Building on prior work that considers single-package delivery across networks using multiple types of collaborative agents with restricted…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Simon Bartlmae , Andreas Hene , Joshua Könen , Heiko Röglin

Given a positive integer $k$, a $k$-dominating set in a graph $G$ is a set of vertices such that every vertex not in the set has at least $k$ neighbors in the set. A total $k$-dominating set, also known as a $k$-tuple total dominating set,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Nina Chiarelli , Tatiana Romina Hartinger , Valeria Alejandra Leoni , Maria Inés Lopez Pujato , Martin Milanič

We study fundamental graph parameters such as the Diameter and Radius in directed graphs, when distances are measured using a somewhat unorthodox but natural measure: the distance between $u$ and $v$ is the minimum of the shortest path…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Mina Dalirrooyfard , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Nikhil Vyas , Nicole Wein , Yinzhan Xu , Yuancheng Yu

The Correlation Clustering problem is one of the most extensively studied clustering formulations due to its wide applications in machine learning, data mining, computational biology and other areas. We consider the Correlation Clustering…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Jianqi Zhou , Zhongyi Zhang , Jiong Guo

We consider the \textsc{Steiner Orientation} problem, where we are given as input a mixed graph $G=(V,E,A)$ and a set of $k$ demand pairs $(s_i,t_i)$, $i\in[k]$. The goal is to orient the undirected edges of $G$ in a way that the resulting…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Tesshu Hanaka , Michael Lampis , Nikolaos Melissinos , Edouard Nemery , Hirotaka Ono , Manolis Vasilakis

We revisit the issue of low-distortion embedding of metric spaces into the line, and more generally, into the shortest path metric of trees, from the parameterized complexity perspective.Let $M=M(G)$ be the shortest path metric of an edge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-04-21 Michael Fellows , Fedor Fomin , Daniel Lokshtanov , Elena Losievskaja , Frances A. Rosamond , Saket Saurabh

We study recursive algorithm for computing DCT of lengths $N=q 2^m$ ($m,q \in \mathbb{N}$, $q$ is odd) due to C.W.Kok. We show that this algorithm has the same multiplicative complexity as theoretically achievable by the prime factor…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-01-22 Yuriy A. Reznik

The classical Feedback Vertex Set problem asks, for a given undirected graph G and an integer k, to find a set of at most k vertices that hits all the cycles in the graph G. Feedback Vertex Set has attracted a large amount of research in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-08-02 Marek Cygan , Marcin Pilipczuk , Michal Pilipczuk , Jakub Onufry Wojtaszczyk

We consider the problem of finding ``dissimilar'' $k$ shortest paths from $s$ to $t$ in an edge-weighted directed graph $D$, where the dissimilarity is measured by the minimum pairwise Hamming distances between these paths. More formally,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Ryo Funayama , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Takeaki Uno

A matching is a set of edges in a graph with no common endpoint. A matching M is called acyclic if the induced subgraph on the endpoints of the edges in M is acyclic. Given a graph G and an integer k, Acyclic Matching Problem seeks for an…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Sahab Hajebi , Ramin Javadi

Many common graph data mining tasks take the form of identifying dense subgraphs (e.g. clustering, clique-finding, etc). In biological applications, the natural model for these dense substructures is often a complete bipartite graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Kyle Kloster , Blair D. Sullivan , Andrew van der Poel

We give an FPT algorithm for deciding whether the vertex set a digraph $D$ can be partitioned into two disjoint sets $V_1,V_2$ such that the digraph $D[V_1]$ induced by $V_1$ has a vertex that can reach all other vertices by directed paths,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Jonas Bamse Andersen , Jørgen Bang-Jensen , Anders Yeo

Ordered matchings, defined as graphs with linearly ordered vertices, where each vertex is connected to exactly one edge, play a crucial role in the area of ordered graphs and their homomorphisms. Therefore, we consider related problems from…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Michal Čertík , Andreas Emil Feldmann , Jaroslav Nešetřil , Paweł Rzążewski