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A dynamic graph algorithm is a data structure that supports edge insertions, deletions, and specific problem queries. While extensive research exists on dynamic algorithms for graph problems solvable in polynomial time, most of these…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Jannick Borowitz , Ernestine Großmann , Christian Schulz

Covering problems are classical computational problems concerning whether a certain combinatorial structure 'covers' another. For example, the minimum vertex covering problem aims to find the smallest set of vertices in a graph so that each…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-07-01 Bruno Coelho Coutinho , Hai-Jun Zhou , Yang-Yu Liu

Recently, there has been increasing interest and progress in improvising the approximation algorithm for well-known NP-Complete problems, particularly the approximation algorithm for the Vertex-Cover problem. Here we have proposed a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-20 Deepak Puthal

A {\bf $\mathbf{k}$-majority coloring} of a digraph $D=(V,A)$ is a coloring of $V$ with $k$ colors so that each vertex $v\in V$ has at least as many out-neighbours of color different from its own color as it has out-neighbours with the same…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Jørgen Bang-Jensen , Francois Pirot , Anders Yeo

A {\em conflict-free coloring} of a graph {\em with respect to open} (resp., {\em closed}) {\em neighborhood} is a coloring of vertices such that for every vertex there is a color appearing exactly once in its open (resp., closed)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Igor Fabrici , Borut Lužar , Simona Rindošová , Roman Soták

Parameterized algorithms are a very useful tool for dealing with NP-hard problems on graphs. Yet, to properly utilize parameterized algorithms it is necessary to choose the right parameter based on the type of problem and properties of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-01-18 Robert Ganian

NP-complete problems should be hard on some instances but those may be extremely rare. On generic instances many such problems, especially related to random graphs, have been proven easy. We show the intractability of random instances of a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Leonid A. Levin , Ramarathnam Venkatesan

We introduce a variant of the vertex-distinguishing edge coloring problem, where each edge is assigned a subset of colors. The label of a vertex is the union of the sets of colors on edges incident to it. In this paper we investigate the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Nicolas Bousquet , Antoine Dailly , Eric Duchene , Hamamache Kheddouci , Aline Parreau

The graph coloring problem (GCP) is one of the most studied NP-HARD problems in computer science. Given a graph , the task is to assign a color to all vertices such that no vertices sharing an edge receive the same color and that the number…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Robiul Islam , Arup Kumar Pramanik

The VertexCover problem is proven to be computationally hard in different ways: It is NP-complete to find an optimal solution and even NP-hard to find an approximation with reasonable factors. In contrast, recent experiments suggest that on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Thomas Bläsius , Philipp Fischbeck , Tobias Friedrich , Maximilian Katzmann

Given a large social or information network, how can we partition the vertices into sets (i.e., colors) such that no two vertices linked by an edge are in the same set while minimizing the number of sets used. Despite the obvious practical…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-08-27 Ryan A. Rossi , Nesreen K. Ahmed

Graph coloring is one of the central problems in distributed graph algorithms. Much of the research on this topic has focused on coloring with $\Delta+1$ colors, where $\Delta$ denotes the maximum degree. Using $\Delta+1$ colors may be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-24 Mohsen Ghaffari , Christiana Lymouri

Many graph problems are locally checkable: a solution is globally feasible if it looks valid in all constant-radius neighborhoods. This idea is formalized in the concept of locally checkable labelings (LCLs), introduced by Naor and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Alkida Balliu , Juho Hirvonen , Christoph Lenzen , Dennis Olivetti , Jukka Suomela

A subcoloring of a graph is a partition of its vertex set into subsets (called colors), each inducing a disjoint union of cliques. It is a natural generalization of the classical proper coloring, in which each color must instead induce an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Malory Marin , Rémi Watrigant

We develop the first parallel graph coloring heuristics with strong theoretical guarantees on work and depth and coloring quality. The key idea is to design a relaxation of the vertex degeneracy order, a well-known graph theory concept, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Maciej Besta , Armon Carigiet , Zur Vonarburg-Shmaria , Kacper Janda , Lukas Gianinazzi , Torsten Hoefler

The problems studied in this paper originate from Graph Motif, a problem introduced in 2006 in the context of biological networks. Informally speaking, it consists in deciding if a multiset of colors occurs in a connected subgraph of a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-09-11 Romeo Rizzi , Florian Sikora

We study network robustness under correlated failures modeled by colors, where each color represents a class of edges or vertices that may fail simultaneously. An edge-colored graph is said to be edge-color-avoiding $k$-edge-connected if it…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-08 József Pintér , Kitti Varga

A $k$-coloring of a graph is an assignment of integers between $1$ and $k$ to vertices in the graph such that the endpoints of each edge receive different numbers. We study a local variation of the coloring problem, which imposes further…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-24 Jie You , Yixin Cao , Jianxin Wang

Reciprocal best match graphs (RBMGs) are vertex colored graphs whose vertices represent genes and the colors the species where the genes reside. Edges identify pairs of genes that are most closely related with respect to an underlying…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Marc Hellmuth , Manuela Geiß , Peter F. Stadler

Graph workloads pose a particularly challenging problem for query optimizers. They typically feature large queries made up of entirely many-to-many joins with complex correlations. This puts significant stress on traditional cardinality…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Kyle Deeds , Diandre Sabale , Moe Kayali , Dan Suciu