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We study the Equitable Connected Partition (ECP for short) problem, where we are given a graph G=(V,E) together with an integer p, and our goal is to find a partition of V into p parts such that each part induces a connected sub-graph of G…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Václav Blažej , Dušan Knop , Jan Pokorný , Šimon Schierreich

In the Min-Sum-Radii (MSR) clustering problem, we are given a finite set X of n points in a metric space. The objective is to find at most k clusters centered at a subset of these points such that every point of X is assigned to one of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Pankaj Kumar , Haiko Müller , Sebastian Ordyniak , Melanie Schmidt

The Firefighter problem is to place firefighters on the vertices of a graph to prevent a fire with known starting point from lighting up the entire graph. In each time step, a firefighter may be permanently placed on an unburned vertex and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-09-23 Marek Cygan , Fedor V. Fomin , Erik Jan van Leeuwen

Lubiw showed that several variants of Graph Isomorphism are NP-complete, where the solutions are required to satisfy certain additional constraints [SICOMP 10, 1981]. One of these, called Isomorphism With Restrictions, is to decide for two…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-09-29 V. Arvind , Johannes Köbler , Sebastian Kuhnert , Jacobo Toran

In this paper we revisit the classical Edge Disjoint Paths (EDP) problem, where one is given an undirected graph G and a set of terminal pairs P and asks whether G contains a set of pairwise edge-disjoint paths connecting every terminal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Robert Ganian , Sebastian Ordyniak , M. S. Ramanujan

In the Weighted Treewidth-$\eta$ Deletion problem we are given a node-weighted graph $G$ and we look for a vertex subset $X$ of minimum weight such that the treewidth of $G-X$ is at most $\eta$. We show that Weighted Treewidth-$\eta$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Michał Włodarczyk

An elimination tree of a connected graph $G$ is a rooted tree on the vertices of $G$ obtained by choosing a root $v$ and recursing on the connected components of $G-v$ to obtain the subtrees of $v$. The graph associahedron of $G$ is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Luís Felipe I. Cunha , Ignasi Sau , Uéverton S. Souza , Mario Valencia-Pabon

We present a parameterized dichotomy for the \textsc{$k$-Sparsest Cut} problem in weighted and unweighted versions. In particular, we show that the weighted \textsc{$k$-Sparsest Cut} problem is NP-hard for every $k\geq 3$ even on graphs…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Ramin Javadi , Amir Nikabadi

Arising from structural graph theory, treewidth has become a focus of study in fixed-parameter tractable algorithms in various communities including combinatorics, integer-linear programming, and numerical analysis. Many NP-hard problems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Sally Dong , Yin Tat Lee , Guanghao Ye

We present the first results on the parameterized complexity of reconfiguration problems, where a reconfiguration version of an optimization problem $Q$ takes as input two feasible solutions $S$ and $T$ and determines if there is a sequence…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-08-23 Amer E. Mouawad , Naomi Nishimura , Venkatesh Raman , Narges Simjour , Akira Suzuki

For a well-studied family of domination-type problems, in bounded-treewidth graphs, we investigate whether it is possible to find faster algorithms. For sets $\sigma,\rho$ of non-negative integers, a $(\sigma,\rho)$-set of a graph $G$ is a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Jacob Focke , Dániel Marx , Fionn Mc Inerney , Daniel Neuen , Govind S. Sankar , Philipp Schepper , Philip Wellnitz

Given a simple connected undirected graph G = (V, E), a set X \subseteq V(G), and integers k and p, STEINER SUBGRAPH EXTENSION problem asks if there exists a set S \supseteq X with at most k vertices such that G[S] is p-edge-connected. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Eduard Eiben , Diptapriyo Majumdar , M. S. Ramanujan

We settle the parameterized complexities of several variants of independent set reconfiguration and dominating set reconfiguration, parameterized by the number of tokens. We show that both problems are XL-complete when there is no limit on…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Hans L. Bodlaender , Carla Groenland , Céline M. F. Swennenhuis

In this paper, we consider the problem of counting and sampling structures in graphs. We define a class of "edge universal labeling problems"---which include proper $k$-colorings, independent sets, and downsets---and describe simple…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Christine T. Cheng , Will Rosenbaum

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

We consider the Steiner tree problem on graphs where we are given a set of nodes and the goal is to find a tree sub-graph of minimum weight that contains all nodes in the given set, potentially including additional nodes. This is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Jiwei Zhang , Deepak Ajwani

We study the minimum diameter spanning tree problem under the reload cost model (DIAMETER-TREE for short) introduced by Wirth and Steffan (2001). In this problem, given an undirected edge-colored graph $G$, reload costs on a path arise at a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Julien Baste , Didem Gözüpek , Christophe Paul , Ignasi Sau , Mordechai Shalom , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

The notion of directed treewidth was introduced by Johnson, Robertson, Seymour and Thomas [Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B, Vol 82, 2001] as a first step towards an algorithmic metatheory for digraphs. They showed that some…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-10-09 Mateus de Oliveira Oliveira

As an emerging artificial intelligence technology, graph neural networks (GNNs) have exhibited promising performance across a wide range of graph-related applications. However, information exchanges among neighbor nodes in GNN pose new…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Jun Li , Weiwei Zhang , Kang Wei , Guangji Chen , Long Shi , Wen Chen

Near ubiquitous mobile computing has led to intense interest in dynamic graph theory. This provides a new and challenging setting for algorithmics and complexity theory. For any graph-based problem, the rapid evolution of a (possibly…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-02-20 Arnaud Casteigts , Bernard Mans , Luke Mathieson