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We show that the Minimal Length-Bounded L-But problem can be computed in linear time with respect to L and the tree-width of the input graph as parameters. In this problem the task is to find a set of edges of a graph such that after…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Dušan Knop , Pavel Dvořák

Semi-supervised clustering is a basic problem in various applications. Most existing methods require knowledge of the ideal cluster number, which is often difficult to obtain in practice. Besides, satisfying the must-link constraints is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-07 Wei Liu , Xin Liu , Michael K. Ng , Zaikun Zhang

We study the fair k-set selection problem where we aim to select $k$ sets from a given set system such that the (weighted) occurrence times that each element appears in these $k$ selected sets are balanced, i.e., the maximum (weighted)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Shi Li , Chenyang Xu , Ruilong Zhang

Consider a graph $G = (V,E)$ and a coloring $c$ of vertices with colors from $[\ell]$. A vertex $v$ is said to be happy with respect to $c$ if $c(v) = c(u)$ for all neighbors $u$ of $v$. Further, an edge $(u,v)$ is happy if $c(u) = c(v)$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Neeldhara Misra , I. Vinod Reddy

Graph-modification problems, where we modify a graph by adding or deleting vertices or edges or contracting edges to obtain a graph in a {\it simpler} class, is a well-studied optimization problem in all algorithmic paradigms including…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Ashwin Jacob , Jari J. H. de Kroon , Diptapriyo Majumdar , Venkatesh Raman

We tackle three optimization problems in which a colored graph, where each node is assigned a color, must be partitioned into colorful connected components. A component is defined as colorful if each color appears at most once. The problems…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Claudia Archetti , Martina Cerulli , Carmine Sorgente

Given a graph $G = (V,E)$ with vertex weights $w(v)$ and a desired number of parts $k$, the goal in graph partitioning problems is to partition the vertex set V into parts $V_1,\ldots,V_k$. Metrics for compactness, contiguity, and balance…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Cyrus Hettle , Shixiang Zhu , Swati Gupta , Yao Xie

In this paper, we introduce the following new concept in graph drawing. Our task is to find a small collection of drawings such that they all together satisfy some property that is useful for graph visualization. We propose investigating a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Petr Hliněný , Tomáš Masařík

The emergence of massive graph data sets requires fast mining algorithms. Centrality measures to identify important vertices belong to the most popular analysis methods in graph mining. A measure that is gaining attention is forest…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Alexander van der Grinten , Eugenio Angriman , Maria Predari , Henning Meyerhenke

The basic (and traditional) crossing number problem is to determine the minimum number of crossings in a topological drawing of an input graph in the plane. We develop a unified framework yielding fixed-parameter tractable (FPT) algorithms…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Éric Colin de Verdière , Petr Hliněný

Balanced partitioning is often a crucial first step in solving large-scale graph optimization problems, e.g., in some cases, a big graph can be chopped into pieces that fit on one machine to be processed independently before stitching the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-10 Kevin Aydin , MohammadHossein Bateni , Vahab Mirrokni

Minimum sum vertex cover of an $n$-vertex graph $G$ is a bijection $\phi : V(G) \to [n]$ that minimizes the cost $\sum_{\{u,v\} \in E(G)} \min \{\phi(u), \phi(v) \}$. Finding a minimum sum vertex cover of a graph (the MSVC problem) is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Shubhada Aute , Fahad Panolan

We introduce the $(p,q)$-Fair Clustering problem. In this problem, we are given a set of points $P$ and a collection of different weight functions $W$. We would like to find a clustering which minimizes the $\ell_q$-norm of the vector over…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Eden Chlamtáč , Yury Makarychev , Ali Vakilian

Graph routing problems have been investigated extensively in operations research, computer science and engineering due to their ubiquity and vast applications. In this paper, we study constant approximation algorithms for some variations of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Xiaoyan Zhang , Donglei Du , Gregory Gutin , Qiaoxia Ming , Jian Sun

A mixed graph contains (undirected) edges as well as (directed) arcs, thus generalizing undirected and directed graphs. A proper coloring $c$ of a mixed graph $G$ assigns a positive integer to each vertex such that $c(u)\neq c(v)$ for every…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Antonio Lauerbach , Konstanty Junosza-Szaniawski , Marie Diana Sieper , Alexander Wolff

In this paper, we study several coloring problems on graphs from the viewpoint of parameterized complexity. We show that Precoloring Extension is fixed-parameter tractable (FPT) parameterized by distance to clique and Equitable Coloring is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-29 I. Vinod Reddy

In this paper, we study correlation clustering under fairness constraints. Fair variants of $k$-median and $k$-center clustering have been studied recently, and approximation algorithms using a notion called fairlet decomposition have been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Sara Ahmadian , Alessandro Epasto , Ravi Kumar , Mohammad Mahdian

Clique-width is one of the graph complexity measures leading to polynomial special-case algorithms for generally NP-complete problems, e.g. graph colourability. The best two currently known algorithms for verifying c-colourability of graphs…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Bruno Courcelle , Irène Durand , Michael Raskin

We provide a degree condition on a regular $n$-vertex graph $G$ which ensures the existence of a near optimal packing of any family $\mathcal H$ of bounded degree $n$-vertex $k$-chromatic separable graphs into $G$. In general, this degree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-12 Padraig Condon , Jaehoon Kim , Daniela Kühn , Deryk Osthus

We consider a variant of treewidth that we call clique-partitioned treewidth in which each bag is partitioned into cliques. This is motivated by the recent development of FPT-algorithms based on similar parameters for various problems. With…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Thomas Bläsius , Maximilian Katzmann , Marcus Wilhelm