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The decomposition of undirected graphs simplifies complex problems by breaking them into solvable subgraphs, following the philosophy of divide and conquer. This paper investigates the relationship between atom decomposition and the maximum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Pei Heng , Yi Sun , Jianhua Guo

Let H be a graph, and let C_H(G) be the number of (subgraph isomorphic) copies of H contained in a graph G. We investigate the fundamental problem of estimating C_H(G). Previous results cover only a few specific instances of this general…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Martin Furer , Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan

Subgraph complementation is an operation that toggles all adjacencies inside a selected vertex set. Given a graph \(G\) and a target class \(\mathcal{C}\), the Minimum Subgraph Complementation problem asks for a minimum-size vertex set…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Juan Gutiérrez , Sagartanu Pal

A hamiltonian sequence is a path walk $P$ that can be a hamiltonian path or hamiltonian circuit. Determining whether such hamiltonian sequence exists in a given graph \G is a NP-Complete problem. In this paper, a novel algorithm for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Cícero A. de Lima

Given simple undirected graph G = (V, E), the Maximum Clique Problem(MCP) is that of finding a maximum-cardinality subset Q of V such that any two vertices in Q are adjacent. We present a modified local search algorithm for this problem.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-05 Lavnikevich Nikolay

We study the design of local algorithms for massive graphs. A local algorithm is one that finds a solution containing or near a given vertex without looking at the whole graph. We present a local clustering algorithm. Our algorithm finds a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-09-19 Daniel A. Spielman , Shang-Hua Teng

We consider the problem of finding a Hamiltonian path with precedence constraints in the form of a partial order on the vertex set. This problem is known as Partially Ordered Hamiltonian Path Problem (POHPP). Here, we study the complexity…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Jesse Beisegel , Katharina Klost , Kristin Knorr , Fabienne Ratajczak , Robert Scheffler

Similarity search over a bipartite graph aims to retrieve from the graph the nodes that are similar to each other, which finds applications in various fields such as online advertising, recommender systems etc. Existing similarity measures…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Renchi Yang

When solving the Hamiltonian path problem it seems natural to be given additional precedence constraints for the order in which the vertices are visited. For example one could decide whether a Hamiltonian path exists for a fixed starting…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Jesse Beisegel , Fabienne Ratajczak , Robert Scheffler

We give an improved branch-and-bound solver for the multiterminal cut problem, based on the recent work of Henzinger et al.. We contribute new, highly effective data reduction rules to transform the graph into a smaller equivalent instance.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Monika Henzinger , Alexander Noe , Christian Schulz

We consider the problem of finding a subgraph of a given graph minimizing the sum of given functions at vertices evaluated at their subgraph degrees. While the problem is NP-hard already for bipartite graphs when the functions are convex on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Gabriel Deza , Shmuel Onn

We introduce an iterative method to search for time-optimal Hamiltonians that drive a quantum system between two arbitrary, and in general mixed, quantum states. The method is based on the idea of progressively improving the efficiency of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-25 Francesco Campaioli , William Sloan , Kavan Modi , Felix Alexander Pollock

Fixed parameter tractable algorithms for bounded treewidth are known to exist for a wide class of graph optimization problems. While most research in this area has been focused on exact algorithms, it is hard to find decompositions of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Thomas Bosman

Induced bipartite subgraphs of maximal vertex cardinality are an essential concept for the analysis of graphs. Yet, discovering them in large graphs is known to be computationally hard. Therefore, we consider in this work a weaker notion of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Dominik Dürrschnabel , Tom Hanika , Gerd Stumme

The notion of treewidth, introduced by Robertson and Seymour in their seminal Graph Minors series, turned out to have tremendous impact on graph algorithmics. Many hard computational problems on graphs turn out to be efficiently solvable in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Michał Ziobro , Marcin Pilipczuk

Two fundamental algorithm-design paradigms are Tree Search and Dynamic Programming. The techniques used therein have been shown to complement one another when solving the complete set partitioning problem, also known as the coalition…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Talal Rahwan , Tomasz P. Michalak

The notion of graph covers (also referred to as locally bijective homomorphisms) plays an important role in topological graph theory and has found its computer science applications in models of local computation. For a fixed target graph…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Jan Bok , Jiří Fiala , Nikola Jedličková , Jan Kratochvíl , Micheala Seifrtová

This paper considers the Hamiltonian walk problem in the multi-agent coordination framework, referred to as $k$-agents Hamiltonian walk problem ($k$-HWP). In this problem, a set of $k$ connected agents collectively compute a spanning walk…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Saswata Jana , Giuseppe F. Italiano , Partha Sarathi Mandal

(Hyper)Graph decomposition is a family of problems that aim to break down large (hyper)graphs into smaller sub(hyper)graphs for easier analysis. The importance of this lies in its ability to enable efficient computation on large and complex…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Marcelo Fonseca Faraj

In this paper, we investigate Hamiltonian path problem in the context of split graphs, and produce a dichotomy result on the complexity of the problem. Our main result is a deep investigation of the structure of $K_{1,4}$-free split graphs…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-11-28 P. Renjith , N. Sadagopan