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This study considers the (soft) capacitated vertex cover problem in a dynamic setting. This problem generalizes the dynamic model of the vertex cover problem, which has been intensively studied in recent years. Given a dynamically changing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Hao-Ting Wei , Wing-Kai Hon , Paul Horn , Chung-Shou Liao , Kunihiko Sadakane

Modern networks are highly dynamic, and temporal graphs capture these changes through discrete edge appearances on a fixed vertex set, known in advance up to the graph's lifetime. The Vertex Cover problem extends to the temporal setting as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Sophia Heck , Eleni Akrida

Algorithms for finding minimum or bounded vertex covers in graphs use a branch-and-reduce strategy, which involves exploring a highly imbalanced search tree. Prior GPU solutions assign different thread blocks to different sub-trees, while…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Hussein Amro , Basel Fakhri , Amer E. Mouawad , Izzat El Hajj

We consider the Vertex Cover problem in intersection graphs of axis-parallel rectangles on the plane. We present two algorithms: The first is an EPTAS for non-crossing rectangle families, rectangle families $\calR$ where $R_1 \setminus R_2$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-01-20 Reuven Bar-Yehuda , Danny Hermelin , Dror Rawitz

The problem of finding an optimal vertex cover in a graph is a classic NP-complete problem, and is a special case of the hitting set question. On the other hand, the hitting set problem, when asked in the context of induced geometric…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-24 Akanksha Agrawal , Sathish Govindarajan , Neeldhara Misra

A cactus is a connected graph that does not contain $K_4 - e$ as a minor. Given a graph $G = (V, E)$ and integer $k \ge 0$, Cactus Vertex Deletion (also known as Diamond Hitting Set) is the problem of deciding whether $G$ has a vertex set…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Yuuki Aoike , Tatsuya Gima , Tesshu Hanaka , Masashi Kiyomi , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Yusuke Kobayashi , Kazuhiro Kurita , Yota Otachi

Counting the solution number of combinational optimization problems is an important topic in the study of computational complexity, especially on the #P-complete complexity class. In this paper, we first investigate some organizations of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Wei Wei , Renquan Zhang , Baolong Niu , Binghui Guo , Zhiming Zheng

To solve the combinatorial optimization problems especially the minimal Vertex-cover problem with high efficiency, is a significant task in theoretical computer science and many other subjects. Aiming at detecting the solution space of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-12-18 Wei Wei , Renquan Zhang , Binghui Guo , Zhiming Zheng

For a collection $\mathcal{F}$ of graphs, the $\mathcal{F}$-\textsc{Contraction} problem takes a graph $G$ and an integer $k$ as input and decides if $G$ can be modified to some graph in $\mathcal{F}$ using at most $k$ edge contractions.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-21 R. Krithika , Pranabendu Misra , Prafullkumar Tale

A linear-time algorithm for generating auxiliary subgraphs for the 3-edge-connected components of a connected multigraph is presented. The algorithm uses an innovative graph contraction operation and makes only one pass over the graph. By…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Yung H. Tsin

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

The weighted $k$-center problem in graphs is a classical facility location problem where we place $k$ centers on the graph, which minimize the maximum weighted distance of a vertex to its nearest center. We study this problem when the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Binay Bhattacharya , Sandip Das , Subhadeep Ranjan Dev

In this paper, we perform theoretical analyses on the behaviour of an evolutionary algorithm and a randomised search algorithm for the dynamic vertex cover problem based on its dual formulation. The dynamic vertex cover problem has already…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Mojgan Pourhassan , Vahid Roostapour , Frank Neumann

The intersection graph of a collection of trapezoids with corner points lying on two parallel lines is called a trapezoid graph. Using binary indexed tree data structure, we improve algorithms for calculating the size and the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-06-14 Aleksandar Ilic , Andreja Ilic

Consider a graph with a rotation system, namely, for every vertex, a circular ordering of the incident edges. Given such a graph, an angle cover maps every vertex to a pair of consecutive edges in the ordering -- an angle -- such that each…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-09-23 William Evans , Ellen Gethner , Jack Spalding-Jamieson , Alexander Wolff

Finding small vertex covers in a graph has applications in numerous domains. Two common formulations of the problem include: Minimum Vertex Cover, which finds the smallest vertex cover in a graph, and Parameterized Vertex Cover, which finds…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Peter Yamout , Karim Barada , Adnan Jaljuli , Amer E. Mouawad , Izzat El Hajj

Some rigorous results and statistics of the solution space of Vertex-Covers on bipartite graphs are given in this paper. Based on the $K\ddot{o}nig$'s theorem, an exact solution space expression algorithm is proposed and statistical…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-09 Wei Wei , Yunjia Zhang , Ting Wang , Baifeng Li , Baolong Niu , Zhiming Zheng

We study two related problems on simple, un-directed graphs: Edge Deletion to Cactus and Spanning Tree to Cactus. Edge Deletion to Cactus has been known to be NP-hard on general graphs at least since 1988. We show improved exact algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Sheikh Shakil Akhtar , Geevarghese Philip

This article studies the Minimum Spanning Tree Problem under Explorable Uncertainty as well as a related vertex uncertainty version of the problem. We particularly consider special instance types, including cactus graphs, for which we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Corinna Mathwieser , Eranda Cela

In the solution discovery problem for a search problem on graphs, we are given an initial placement of $k$ tokens on the vertices of a graph and asked whether this placement can be transformed into a feasible solution by applying a small…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Rin Saito , Anouk Sommer , Tatsuhiro Suga , Takahiro Suzuki , Yuma Tamura