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The metric dimension has been introduced independently by Harary, Melter and Slater in 1975 to identify vertices of a graph G using its distances to a subset of vertices of G. A resolving set X of a graph G is a subset of vertices such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Nicolas Bousquet , Quentin Deschamps , Aline Parreau

For the well-known Survivable Network Design Problem (SNDP) we are given an undirected graph $G$ with edge costs, a set $R$ of terminal vertices, and an integer demand $d_{s,t}$ for every terminal pair $s,t\in R$. The task is to compute a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Andreas Emil Feldmann , Anish Mukherjee , Erik Jan van Leeuwen

Given a directed graph $G$ and a parameter $k$, the {\sc Long Directed Cycle (LDC)} problem asks whether $G$ contains a simple cycle on at least $k$ vertices, while the {\sc $k$-Path} problems asks whether $G$ contains a simple path on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-11-02 Meirav Zehavi

The class of even-hole-free graphs is very similar to the class of perfect graphs, and was indeed a cornerstone in the tools leading to the proof of the Strong Perfect Graph Theorem. However, the complexity of computing a maximum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-08 Edin Husic , Stephan Thomasse , Nicolas Trotignon

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

This note summarizes the state of what is known about the tractability of the problem ModPath, which asks if an input undirected graph contains a simple st-path whose length satisfies modulo constraints. We also consider the problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Antoine Amarilli

We introduce a new Steiner-type problem for directed graphs named \textsc{$q$-Root Steiner Tree}. Here one is given a directed graph $G=(V,A)$ and two subsets of its vertices, $R$ of size $q$ and $T$, and the task is to find a minimum size…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Ondřej Suchý

Given a directed graph, we show how to efficiently find a shortest (directed, simple) cycle on an even number of vertices. As far as we know, no polynomial-time algorithm was previously known for this problem. In fact, finding any even…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Andreas Björklund , Thore Husfeldt , Petteri Kaski

In a digraph $D=(V,A)$, an oriented path is a sequence $P=x_1x_2\dots x_p$ of distinct vertices such that either $x_ix_{i+1}\in A$ or $x_{i+1}x_{i}\in A$ or both for every $i\in [p-1]$. If $x_ix_{i+1}\in A$ in $P$, then $x_ix_{i+1}$ is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-25 S. Gerke , Q. Guo , G. Gutin , Y. Hao , W. Veeranonchai , A. Yeo

In the general AntiFactor problem, a graph $G$ is given with a set $X_v\subseteq \mathbb{N}$ of forbidden degrees for every vertex $v$ and the task is to find a set $S$ of edges such that the degree of $v$ in $S$ is not in the set $X_v$.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Dániel Marx , Govind S. Sankar , Philipp Schepper

For a digraph $G$, a set $F\subseteq V(G)$ is said to be a feedback vertex set (FVS) if $G-F$ is acyclic. The problem of finding a smallest FVS is NP-hard. We present a matrix scaling technique for finding feedback vertex sets in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-17 James M. Shook , Isabel Beichl

A matching is a set of edges in a graph with no common endpoint. A matching M is called acyclic if the induced subgraph on the endpoints of the edges in M is acyclic. Given a graph G and an integer k, Acyclic Matching Problem seeks for an…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Sahab Hajebi , Ramin Javadi

The longest induced (or chordless) cycle problem is a graph problem classified as NP-complete and involves the task of determining the largest possible subset of vertices within a graph in such a way that the induced subgraph forms a cycle.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Ahmad T. Anaqreh , Boglárka G. -Tóth , Tamás Vinkó

We generalize the family of $(\sigma, \rho)$-problems and locally checkable vertex partition problems to their distance versions, which naturally captures well-known problems such as distance-$r$ dominating set and distance-$r$ independent…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Lars Jaffke , O-joung Kwon , Torstein J. F. Strømme , Jan Arne Telle

We consider a direct conversion of the, classical, set splitting problem to the directed Hamiltonian cycle problem. A constructive procedure for such a conversion is given, and it is shown that the input size of the converted instance is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-28 Michael Haythorpe , Jerzy Filar

Bayesian network structure learning is the notoriously difficult problem of discovering a Bayesian network that optimally represents a given set of training data. In this paper we study the computational worst-case complexity of exact…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Sebastian Ordyniak , Stefan Szeider

A heavy path in a weighted graph represents a notion of connectivity and ordering that goes beyond two nodes. The heaviest path of length l in the graph, simply means a sequence of nodes with edges between them, such that the sum of edge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-15 Mohammad Khabbaz

We study the parameterized complexity of maximum temporal connected components (tccs) in temporal graphs, i.e., graphs that deterministically change over time. In a tcc, any pair of vertices must be able to reach each other via a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Argyrios Deligkas , Michelle Döring , Eduard Eiben , Tiger-Lily Goldsmith , George Skretas , Georg Tennigkeit

We study the Steiner Tree problem on unit disk graphs. Given a $n$ vertex unit disk graph $G$, a subset $R\subseteq V(G)$ of $t$ vertices and a positive integer $k$, the objective is to decide if there exists a tree $T$ in $G$ that spans…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Sujoy Bhore , Paz Carmi , Sudeshna Kolay , Meirav Zehavi

A graph $G$ is \emph{locally irregular} if no two of its adjacent vertices have the same degree. In [Fioravantes et al. Complexity of finding maximum locally irregular induced subgraph. {\it SWAT}, 2022], the authors introduced and studied…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Foivos Fioravantes , Nikolaos Melissinos , Theofilos Triommatis