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The \emph{linear vertex arboricity} of a graph is the smallest number of sets into which the vertices of a graph can be partitioned so that each of these sets induces a linear forest. Chaplick et al. [JoCG 2020] showed that, somewhat…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Alexander Erhardt , Alexander Wolff

We consider a the minimum k-way cut problem for unweighted graphs with a size bound s on the number of cut edges allowed. Thus we seek to remove as few edges as possible so as to split a graph into k components, or report that this requires…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-01-27 Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Mikkel Thorup

We study the NP-hard Shortest Path Most Vital Edges problem arising in the context of analyzing network robustness. For an undirected graph with positive integer edge lengths and two designated vertices $s$ and $t$, the goal is to delete as…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Cristina Bazgan , Till Fluschnik , André Nichterlein , Rolf Niedermeier , Maximilian Stahlberg

Let $G$ be a graph such that each vertex has its list of available colors, and assume that each list is a subset of the common set consisting of $k$ colors. For two given list colorings of $G$, we study the problem of transforming one into…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Tatsuhiko Hatanaka , Takehiro Ito , Xiao Zhou

In graph realization problems one is given a degree sequence and the task is to decide whether there is a graph whose vertex degrees match to the given sequence. This realization problem is known to be polynomial-time solvable when the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-01-18 Sepp Hartung , André Nichterlein

An orthogonal drawing is an embedding of a plane graph into a grid. In a seminal work of Tamassia (SIAM Journal on Computing 1987), a simple combinatorial characterization of angle assignments that can be realized as bend-free orthogonal…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Yi-Jun Chang

Orthogonal drawings, i.e., embeddings of graphs into grids, are a classic topic in Graph Drawing. Often the goal is to find a drawing that minimizes the number of bends on the edges. A key ingredient for bend minimization algorithms is the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Benjamin Niedermann , Ignaz Rutter , Matthias Wolf

In the Disjoint Shortest Paths problem one is given a graph $G$ and a set $\mathcal{T}=\{(s_1,t_1),\dots,(s_k,t_k)\}$ of $k$ vertex pairs. The question is whether there exist vertex-disjoint paths $P_1,\dots,P_k$ in $G$ so that each $P_i$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Michał Pilipczuk , Giannos Stamoulis , Michał Włodarczyk

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

Given a graph $G$ and a positive integer $k$, the 2-Load coloring problem is to check whether there is a $2$-coloring $f:V(G) \rightarrow \{r,b\}$ of $G$ such that for every $i \in \{r,b\}$, there are at least $k$ edges with both end…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-13 I. Vinod Reddy

Deciding whether a diagram of a knot can be untangled with a given number of moves (as a part of the input) is known to be NP-complete. In this paper we determine the parameterized complexity of this problem with respect to a natural…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Clément Legrand-Duchesne , Ashutosh Rai , Martin Tancer

Recently, there has been interest in representing single graphs by multiple drawings; for example, using graph stories, storyplans, or uncrossed collections. In this paper, we apply this idea to orthogonal graph drawing. Due to the…

A metro-line crossing minimization problem is to draw multiple lines on an underlying graph that models stations and rail tracks so that the number of crossings of lines becomes minimum. It has several variations by adding restrictions on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-06-18 Yoshio Okamoto , Yuichi Tatsu , Yushi Uno

We study computational complexity of the class of distance-constrained graph labeling problems from the fixed parameter tractability point of view. The parameters studied are neighborhood diversity and clique width. We rephrase the distance…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-12-04 Jiří Fiala , Tomáš Gavenčiak , Dušan Knop , Martin Koutecký , Jan Kratochvíl

In the Colored Clustering problem, one is asked to cluster edge-colored (hyper-)graphs whose colors represent interaction types. More specifically, the goal is to select as many edges as possible without choosing two edges that share an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Leon Kellerhals , Tomohiro Koana , Pascal Kunz , Rolf Niedermeier

We consider the well-studied problem of finding a spanning tree with minimum average distance between vertex pairs (called a MAD tree). This is a classic network design problem which is known to be NP-hard. While approximation algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Tom-Lukas Breitkopf , Vincent Froese , Anton Herrmann , André Nichterlein , Camille Richer

The Minimum Branch Vertices Spanning Tree problem aims to find a spanning tree $T$ in a given graph $G$ with the fewest branch vertices, defined as vertices with a degree three or more in $T$. This problem, known to be NP-hard, has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Luisa Gargano , Adele A. Rescigno

Given a graph $G$ with source and destination vertices $s,t\in V(G)$ respectively, \textsc{Tracking Paths} asks for a minimum set of vertices $T\subseteq V(G)$, such that the sequence of vertices encountered in each simple path from $s$ to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Pratibha Choudhary , Venkatesh Raman

Computing a minimum-area planar straight-line drawing of a graph is known to be NP-hard for planar graphs, even when restricted to outerplanar graphs. However, the complexity question is open for trees. Only a few hardness results are known…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-09-01 Therese Biedl , Debajyoti Mondal

We study the classical and parameterized complexity of computing the positive non-clashing teaching dimension of a set of concepts, that is, the smallest number of examples per concept required to successfully teach an intelligent learner…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Robert Ganian , Liana Khazaliya , Fionn Mc Inerney , Mathis Rocton