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A matching of a graph is a subset of edges no two of which share a common vertex, and a maximum matching is a matching of maximum cardinality. In a $b$-matching every vertex $v$ has an associated bound $b_v$, and a maximum $b$-matching is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Yuval Emek , Shay Kutten , Mordechai Shalom , Shmuel Zaks

A geometric graph is a graph whose vertex set is a set of points in the plane and whose edge set contains straight-line segments. A matching in a graph is a subset of edges of the graph with no shared vertices. A matching is called perfect…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-10-21 Ahmad Biniaz

Temporal graphs are a popular modelling mechanism for dynamic complex systems that extend ordinary graphs with discrete time. Simply put, time progresses one unit per step and the availability of edges can change with time. We consider the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Pete Austin , Sougata Bose , Patrick Totzke

Connectivity in temporal graphs relies on the notion of temporal paths, in which edges follow a chronological order (either strict or non-strict). In this work, we investigate the question of how to make a temporal graph connected. More…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-02-21 T. Bellitto , J. Bouton Popper , B. Escoffier

Given a static vertex-selection problem (e.g. independent set, dominating set) on a graph, we can define a corresponding temporally satisfying reconfiguration problem on a temporal graph which asks for a sequence of solutions to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Tom Davot , Jessica Enright , Laura Larios-Jones

We give a fully dynamic deterministic algorithm for maintaining a maximal matching of an $n$-vertex graph in $\tilde{O}(n^{8/9})$ amortized update time. This breaks the long-standing $\Omega(n)$-update-time barrier on dense graphs,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Aaron Bernstein , Sayan Bhattacharya , Peter Kiss , Thatchaphol Saranurak

A matching $M$ in a graph $G$ is said to be uniquely restricted if there is no other matching in $G$ that matches the same set of vertices as $M$. We describe a polynomial-time algorithm to compute a maximum cardinality uniquely restricted…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-05-11 Mathew C. Francis , Dalu Jacob , Satyabrata Jana

A temporal graph is a data structure, consisting of nodes and edges in which the edges are associated with time labels. To analyze the temporal graph, the first step is to find a proper graph dataset/benchmark. While many temporal graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Wouter Ligtenberg , Yulong Pei

Within many real-world networks the links between pairs of nodes change over time. Thus, there has been a recent boom in studying temporal graphs. Recognizing patterns in temporal graphs requires a proximity measure to compare different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Vincent Froese , Brijnesh Jain , Rolf Niedermeier , Malte Renken

A temporal graph is a dynamic graph where every edge is assigned a set of integer time labels that indicate at which discrete time step the edge is available. In this paper, we study how changes of the time labels, corresponding to delays…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Argyrios Deligkas , Igor Potapov

Finding a maximum-cardinality or maximum-weight matching in (edge-weighted) undirected graphs is among the most prominent problems of algorithmic graph theory. For $n$-vertex and $m$-edge graphs, the best known algorithms run in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Tomohiro Koana , Viatcheslav Korenwein , André Nichterlein , Rolf Niedermeier , Philipp Zschoche

Given an undirected graph $G$, the problem of deciding whether $G$ admits a simple and proper time-labeling that makes it temporally connected is known to be NP-hard (G\"obel et al., 1991). In this article, we relax this problem and ask…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Arnaud Casteigts , Michelle Döring , Nils Morawietz

Real-time analysis of graphs containing temporal information, such as social media streams, Q&A networks, and cyber data sources, plays an important role in various applications. Among them, detecting patterns is one of the fundamental…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Seunghwan Min , Jihoon Jang , Kunsoo Park , Dora Giammarresi , Giuseppe F. Italiano , Wook-Shin Han

Temporal networks model a variety of important phenomena involving timed interactions between entities. Existing methods for machine learning on temporal networks generally exhibit at least one of two limitations. First, time is assumed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Sudhanshu Chanpuriya , Ryan A. Rossi , Sungchul Kim , Tong Yu , Jane Hoffswell , Nedim Lipka , Shunan Guo , Cameron Musco

A maximum priority matching is a matching in an undirected graph that maximizes a priority score defined with respect to given vertex priorities. An earlier paper showed how to find maximum priority matchings in unweighted graphs. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-01-01 Jonathan Turner

Graph colouring is a fundamental problem for networks, serving as a tool for avoiding conflicts via symmetry breaking, for example, avoiding multiple computer processes simultaneously updating the same resource. This paper considers a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Duncan Adamson , George B. Mertzios , Paul G. Spirakis

In this paper, we provide polynomial-time algorithms for different extensions of the matching counting problem, namely maximal matchings, path matchings (linear forest) and paths, on graph classes of bounded clique-width. For maximal…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Benjamin Hellouin de Menibus , Takeaki Uno

We study a family of reachability problems under waiting-time restrictions in temporal and vertex-colored temporal graphs. Given a temporal graph and a set of source vertices, we find the set of vertices that are reachable from a source via…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Suhas Thejaswi , Juho Lauri , Aristides Gionis

A graph is temporally connected if there exists a strict temporal path, i.e. a path whose edges have strictly increasing labels, from every vertex $u$ to every other vertex $v$. In this paper we study temporal design problems for undirected…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Nina Klobas , George B. Mertzios , Hendrik Molter , Paul G. Spirakis

A maximal matching $M$ that consists of independent edges is a subgraph of a simple and undirected graph $G$ for which $G-M$ forms an independent set. A graph $G$ is called equimatchable if all maximal matchings have the same number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Mehmet Akif Yıldız