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In this paper we study a maximization version of the classical Feedback Vertex Set (FVS) problem, namely, the Max Min FVS problem, in the realm of parameterized complexity. In this problem, given an undirected graph $G$, a positive integer…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Ajinkya Gaikwad , Hitendra Kumar , Soumen Maity , Saket Saurabh , Shuvam Kant Tripathi

In this paper we consider a fundamental problem in the area of viral marketing, called T{\scriptsize ARGET} S{\scriptsize ET} S{\scriptsize ELECTION} problem. We study the problem when the underlying graph is a block-cactus graph, a chordal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-11-30 Chun-Ying Chiang , Liang-Hao Huang , Bo-Jr Li , Jiaojiao Wu , Hong-Gwa Yeh

Given a graph G, a matching is a subset of edges of G that do not share an endpoint. A matching M is uniquely restricted if the subgraph induced by the endpoints of the edges of M has exactly one perfect matching. Given a graph G and a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Juhi Chaudhary , Ignasi Sau , Meirav Zehavi

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

In the classic TARGET SAT SELECTION problem, we are asked to minimise the number of nodes to activate so that, after the application of a certain propagation process, all nodes of the graph are active. Bazgan and Chopin [Discrete…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Pål Grønås Drange , Irene Muzi , Felix Reidl

A prototypical graph problem is centered around a graph-theoretic property for a set of vertices and a solution to it is a set of vertices for which the desired property holds. The task is to decide whether, in the given graph, there exists…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Dušan Knop , Tomáš Masařík , Tomáš Toufar

The recently introduced graph parameter tree-cut width plays a similar role with respect to immersions as the graph parameter treewidth plays with respect to minors. In this paper, we provide the first algorithmic applications of tree-cut…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Robert Ganian , Eun Jung Kim , Stefan Szeider

A graph $H$ is {\em $p$-edge colorable} if there is a coloring $\psi: E(H) \rightarrow \{1,2,\dots,p\}$, such that for distinct $uv, vw \in E(H)$, we have $\psi(uv) \neq \psi(vw)$. The {\sc Maximum Edge-Colorable Subgraph} problem takes as…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Akanksha Agrawal , Madhumita Kundu , Abhishek Sahu , Saket Saurabh , Prafullkumar Tale

The paper deals with the Feedback Vertex Set problem parameterized by the solution size. Given a graph $G$ and a parameter $k$, one has to decide if there is a set $S$ of at most $k$ vertices such that $G-S$ is acyclic. Assuming the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Gaétan Berthe , Marin Bougeret , Daniel Gonçalves , Jean-Florent Raymond

Given a simple connected undirected graph G = (V, E), a set X \subseteq V(G), and integers k and p, STEINER SUBGRAPH EXTENSION problem asks if there exists a set S \supseteq X with at most k vertices such that G[S] is p-edge-connected. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Eduard Eiben , Diptapriyo Majumdar , M. S. Ramanujan

Fixed parameter tractable (FPT) algorithms run in time f(p(x)) poly(|x|), where f is an arbitrary function of some parameter p of the input x and poly is some polynomial function. Treewidth, branchwidth, cliquewidth, NLC-width, rankwidth,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-20 Jakub Marecek

We provide a polynomial-time algorithm for b-Coloring on graphs of constant clique-width. This unifies and extends nearly all previously known polynomial time results on graph classes, and answers open questions posed by Campos and Silva…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Lars Jaffke , Paloma T. Lima , Daniel Lokshtanov

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

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

For a graph $G$, a subset $S\subseteq V(G)$ is called a resolving set of $G$ if, for any two vertices $u,v\in V(G)$, there exists a vertex $w\in S$ such that $d(w,u)\neq d(w,v)$. The Metric Dimension problem takes as input a graph $G$ on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Florent Foucaud , Esther Galby , Liana Khazaliya , Shaohua Li , Fionn Mc Inerney , Roohani Sharma , Prafullkumar Tale

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

In $(k,r)$-Center we are given a (possibly edge-weighted) graph and are asked to select at most $k$ vertices (centers), so that all other vertices are at distance at most $r$ from a center. In this paper we provide a number of tight…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Ioannis Katsikarelis , Michael Lampis , Vangelis Th. Paschos

We study the problem Symmetric Directed Multicut from a parameterized complexity perspective. In this problem, the input is a digraph $D$, a set of cut requests $C=\{(s_1,t_1),\ldots,(s_\ell,t_\ell)\}$ and an integer $k$, and the task is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Eduard Eiben , Clément Rambaud , Magnus Wahlström

In Two-Sets Cut-Uncut, we are given an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ and two terminal sets $S$ and $T$. The task is to find a minimum cut $C$ in $G$ (if there is any) separating $S$ from $T$ under the following ``uncut'' condition. In the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Matthias Bentert , Fedor V. Fomin , Fanny Hauser , Saket Saurabh

We introduce the graph parameter boolean-width, related to the number of different unions of neighborhoods across a cut of a graph. Boolean-width is similar to rank-width, which is related to the number of $GF[2]$-sums (1+1=0) of…

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