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We study the parameterized complexity of dominating sets in geometric intersection graphs. In one dimension, we investigate intersection graphs induced by translates of a fixed pattern Q that consists of a finite number of intervals and a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Mark de Berg , Sándor Kisfaludi-Bak , Gerhard Woeginger

Fixed-parameter algorithms, approximation algorithms and moderately exponential algorithms are three major approaches to algorithms design. While each of them being very active in its own, there is an increasing attention to the connection…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-11-29 Bruno Escoffier , EunJung Kim , Vangelis Th. Paschos

In Maximum $k$-Vertex Cover (Max $k$-VC), the input is an edge-weighted graph $G$ and an integer $k$, and the goal is to find a subset $S$ of $k$ vertices that maximizes the total weight of edges covered by $S$. Here we say that an edge is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Pasin Manurangsi

The concept of NP-completeness has been proposed for half a century, and it is conjectured that there are no subexponential-time algorithms for NP-hard problems, which is known as the Exponential Time Hypothesis (ETH). As a pivotal…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yongming Yi

We present a parameterized dichotomy for the \textsc{$k$-Sparsest Cut} problem in weighted and unweighted versions. In particular, we show that the weighted \textsc{$k$-Sparsest Cut} problem is NP-hard for every $k\geq 3$ even on graphs…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Ramin Javadi , Amir Nikabadi

We consider the well-studied Robust $(k, z)$-Clustering problem, which generalizes the classic $k$-Median, $k$-Means, and $k$-Center problems. Given a constant $z\ge 1$, the input to Robust $(k, z)$-Clustering is a set $P$ of $n$ weighted…

In an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$, we say $(A,B)$ is a pair of perfectly matched sets if $A$ and $B$ are disjoint subsets of $V$ and every vertex in $A$ (resp. $B$) has exactly one neighbor in $B$ (resp. $A$). The size of a pair of perfectly…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-11-08 N. R. Aravind , Roopam Saxena

We study the Dominating set problem and Independent Set Problem for dynamic graphs in the vertex-arrival model. We say that a dynamic algorithm for one of these problems is $k$-stable when it makes at most $k$ changes to its output…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Mark de Berg , Arpan Sadhukhan , Frits Spieksma

There is substantial literature dealing with fixed parameter algorithms for the dominating set problem on various families of graphs. In this paper, we give a $k^{O(dk)} n$ time algorithm for finding a dominating set of size at most $k$ in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Noga Alon , Shai Gutner

We study the fair k-set selection problem where we aim to select $k$ sets from a given set system such that the (weighted) occurrence times that each element appears in these $k$ selected sets are balanced, i.e., the maximum (weighted)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Shi Li , Chenyang Xu , Ruilong Zhang

For a graph class $\mathcal{G}$, we define the $\mathcal{G}$-modular cardinality of a graph $G$ as the minimum size of a vertex partition of $G$ into modules that each induces a graph in $\mathcal{G}$. This generalizes other module-based…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Manuel Lafond , Weidong Luo

Matroids, particularly linear ones, have been a powerful tool in parameterized complexity for algorithms and kernelization. They have sped up or replaced dynamic programming. Delta-matroids generalize matroids by encapsulating structures…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Eduard Eiben , Tomohiro Koana , Magnus Wahlström

A $k$-dominating set is a set $D$ of nodes of a graph such that, for each node $v$, there exists a node $w \in D$ at distance at most $k$ from $v$. Our aim is the deterministic distributed construction of small $T$-dominating sets in time…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-04 Avery Miller , Andrzej Pelc

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

The concept of generalized domination unifies well-known variants of domination-like and independence problems, such as Dominating Set, Independent Set, Perfect Code, etc. A generalized domination (also called $[\sigma,\rho]$-Dominating…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-04-04 Mathieu Chapelle

We study the Independent Set (IS) problem in $H$-free graphs, i.e., graphs excluding some fixed graph $H$ as an induced subgraph. We prove several inapproximability results both for polynomial-time and parameterized algorithms.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Pavel Dvořák , Andreas Emil Feldmann , Ashutosh Rai , Paweł Rzążewski

Let $G$ be a graph on $n$ vertices and $\mathrm{STAB}_k(G)$ be the convex hull of characteristic vectors of its independent sets of size at most $k$. We study extension complexity of $\mathrm{STAB}_k(G)$ with respect to a fixed parameter…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Jakub Gajarský , Petr Hliněný , Hans Raj Tiwary

In the Determinant Maximization problem, given an $n\times n$ positive semi-definite matrix $\bf{A}$ in $\mathbb{Q}^{n\times n}$ and an integer $k$, we are required to find a $k\times k$ principal submatrix of $\bf{A}$ having the maximum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Naoto Ohsaka

We study the \textsc{$\alpha$-Fixed Cardinality Graph Partitioning ($\alpha$-FCGP)} problem, the generic local graph partitioning problem introduced by Bonnet et al. [Algorithmica 2015]. In this problem, we are given a graph $G$, two…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Tanmay Inamdar , Tomohiro Koana

We consider the capacitated clustering problem in general metric spaces where the goal is to identify $k$ clusters and minimize the sum of the radii of the clusters (we call this the Capacitated-$k$-sumRadii problem). We are interested in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Ragesh Jaiswal , Amit Kumar , Jatin Yadav