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Temporal graphs arise when modeling interactions that evolve over time. They usually come in several flavors, depending on the number of parameters used to describe the temporal aspects of the interactions: time of appearance, duration,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Guillaume Aubian , Filippo Brunelli , Feodor F Dragan , Guillaume Ducoffe , Michel Habib , Allen Ibiapina , Laurent Viennot

Reachability questions are one of the most fundamental algorithmic primitives in temporal graphs -- graphs whose edge set changes over discrete time steps. A core problem here is the NP-hard Short Restless Temporal Path: given a temporal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Philipp Zschoche

Logistics and transportation networks require a large amount of resources to realize necessary connections between locations and minimizing these resources is a vital aspect of planning research. Since such networks have dynamic connections…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Argyrios Deligkas , Michelle Döring , Eduard Eiben , Tiger-Lily Goldsmith , George Skretas , Georg Tennigkeit

A new algorithm for exactly sampling from the set of proper colorings of a graph is presented. This is the first such algorithm that has an expected running time that is guaranteed to be linear in the size of a graph with maximum degree \(…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Kritika Bhandari , Mark Huber

A weighted coloured-edge graph is a graph for which each edge is assigned both a positive weight and a discrete colour, and can be used to model transportation and computer networks in which there are multiple transportation modes. In such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-12-15 Andrew Ensor , Felipe Lillo

In the Coloured Clustering problem, we wish to colour vertices of an edge coloured graph to produce as many stable edges as possible, i.e., edges with the same colour as their ends. In this paper, we reveal that the problem is in fact a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Leizhen CAI , On Yin LEUNG

The betweenness centrality of a vertex v is an important centrality measure that quantifies how many optimal paths between pairs of other vertices visit v. Computing betweenness centrality in a temporal graph, in which the edge set may…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Jessica Enright , Kitty Meeks , Hendrik Molter

The paper considers the NP-hard graph vertex coloring problem, which differs from traditional problems in which it is required to color vertices with a given (or minimal) number of colors so that adjacent vertices have different colors. In…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Adil Erzin , Roman Plotnikov , Georgii Zhukov

In graph theory, the longest path problem is the problem of finding a simple path of maximum length in a given graph. For some small classes of graphs, the problem can be solved in polynomial time [2, 4], but it remains NP-hard on general…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-09-15 Lajos L. Pongrácz

The Graph Motif problem was introduced in 2006 in the context of biological networks. It consists of deciding whether or not a multiset of colors occurs in a connected subgraph of a vertex-colored graph. Graph Motif has been mostly analyzed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-01-13 Édouard Bonnet , Florian Sikora

In this paper we resolve the complexity of the isomorphism problem on all but finitely many of the graph classes characterized by two forbidden induced subgraphs. To this end we develop new techniques applicable for the structural and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-11-10 Pascal Schweitzer

Graph drawing research traditionally focuses on producing geometric embeddings of graphs satisfying various aesthetic constraints. After the geometric embedding is specified, there is an additional step that is often overlooked or ignored:…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Michael B. Dillencourt , David Eppstein , Michael T. Goodrich

A temporal graph is a graph in which edges are assigned a time label. Two nodes u and v of a temporal graph are connected one to the other if there exists a path from u to v with increasing edge time labels. We consider the problem of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Alkida Balliu , Filippo Brunelli , Pierluigi Crescenzi , Dennis Olivetti , Laurent Viennot

Graph colouring is a combinatorial optimisation problem with applications in several important domains, including sports scheduling, cartography, street map navigation, and timetabling. It is also of significant theoretical interest and a…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Rhyd Lewis

Many networked systems involve multiple modes of transport. Such systems are called multimodal, and examples include logistic networks, biomedical phenomena, manufacturing process and telecommunication networks. Existing techniques for…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-12-16 Andrew Ensor , Felipe Lillo

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

Interactions between two entities often occur at specific timestamps, which can be modeled as a temporal graph. Exploring the relationships between vertices based on temporal paths is one of the fundamental tasks. In this paper, we conduct…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Zhiyang Tang , Yanping Wu , Xiangjun Zai , Chen Chen , Xiaoyang Wang , Ying Zhang

We study the parameterized complexity of finding shortest s-t-paths with an additional fairness requirement. The task is to compute a shortest path in a vertex-colored graph where each color appears (roughly) equally often in the solution.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Matthias Bentert , Leon Kellerhals , Rolf Niedermeier

In a colouring of a graph, a vertex is b-chromatic if it is adjacent to a vertex of every other colour. We consider four well-studied colouring problems: b-Chromatic Number, Tight b-Chromatic Number, Fall Chromatic Number and Fall…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Jungho Ahn , Tala Eagling-Vose , Felicia Lucke , David Manlove , Fabricio Mendoza , Daniël Paulusma

Temporal graphs (in which edges are active at specified times) are of particular relevance for spreading processes on graphs, e.g.~the spread of disease or dissemination of information. Motivated by real-world applications, modification of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Jessica Enright , Kitty Meeks , Fiona Skerman