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We consider the foundational problem of maintaining a $(1-\varepsilon)$-approximate maximum weight matching (MWM) in an $n$-node dynamic graph undergoing edge insertions and deletions. We provide a general reduction that reduces the problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Aaron Bernstein , Jiale Chen , Aditi Dudeja , Zachary Langley , Aaron Sidford , Ta-Wei Tu

We provide a comprehensive study of a natural geometric optimization problem motivated by questions in the context of satellite communication and astrophysics. In the problem Minimum Scan Cover with Angular Costs (MSC), we are given a graph…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Sándor P. Fekete , Linda Kleist , Dominik Krupke

The Minimum Vertex Cover (MinVC) problem is a well-known NP-hard problem. Recently there has been great interest in solving this problem on real-world massive graphs. For such graphs, local search is a promising approach to finding optimal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-22 Yi Fan , Chengqian Li , Zongjie Ma , LjiLjana Brankovic , Vladimir Estivill-Castro , Abdul Sattar

Independent set is a fundamental problem in combinatorial optimization. While in general graphs the problem is essentially inapproximable, for many important graph classes there are approximation algorithms known in the offline setting.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Monika Henzinger , Stefan Neumann , Andreas Wiese

The eternal vertex cover problem is a variant of the classical vertex cover problem where a set of guards on the vertices have to be dynamically reconfigured from one vertex cover to another in every round of an attacker-defender game. The…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Jasine Babu , L. Sunil Chandran , Mathew Francis , Veena Prabhakaran , Deepak Rajendraprasad , J. Nandini Warrier

In this paper we study the dynamic versions of two basic graph problems: Minimum Dominating Set and its variant Minimum Connected Dominating Set. For those two problems, we present algorithms that maintain a solution under edge insertions…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Niklas Hjuler , Giuseppe F. Italiano , Nikos Parotsidis , David Saulpic

Evolution of large scale networks demand for efficient way of communication in the networks. One way to propagate information in the network is to find vertex cover. In this paper we describe a variant of vertex cover problem naming it…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-10 Tarun Yadav , Koustav Sadhukhan , Rao Arvind Mallari

We study dynamic graph algorithms in the Massively Parallel Computation model, which was inspired by practical data processing systems. Our goal is to provide algorithms that can efficiently handle large batches of edge insertions and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Krzysztof Nowicki , Krzysztof Onak

We give a fully dynamic deterministic algorithm for maintaining a maximal matching of an $n$-vertex graph in $\tilde{O}(n^{8/9})$ amortized update time. This breaks the long-standing $\Omega(n)$-update-time barrier on dense graphs,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Aaron Bernstein , Sayan Bhattacharya , Peter Kiss , Thatchaphol Saranurak

We consider a spectrum of geometric optimization problems motivated by contexts such as satellite communication and astrophysics. In the problem Minimum Scan Cover with Angular Costs, we are given a graph $G$ that is embedded in Euclidean…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Kevin Buchin , Sándor P. Fekete , Alexander Hill , Linda Kleist , Irina Kostitsyna , Dominik Krupke , Roel Lambers , Martijn Struijs

Maximum cardinality matching in bipartite graphs is an important and well-studied problem. The fully dynamic version, in which edges are inserted and deleted over time has also been the subject of much attention. Existing algorithms for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-08-18 Aaron Bernstein , Cliff Stein

The study of approximate matching in the Massively Parallel Computations (MPC) model has recently seen a burst of breakthroughs. Despite this progress, however, we still have a far more limited understanding of maximal matching which is one…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Soheil Behnezhad , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , David G. Harris

Let $\mathcal{D}$ be a set of $n$ disks in the plane. The disk graph $G_\mathcal{D}$ for $\mathcal{D}$ is the undirected graph with vertex set $\mathcal{D}$ in which two disks are joined by an edge if and only if they intersect. The…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Sergio Cabello , Wolfgang Mulzer

Given a graph $G$, the Connected Vertex Cover problem (CVC) asks to find a minimum cardinality vertex cover of $G$ that induces a connected subgraph. In this paper we describe some approaches to solve the CVC problem exactly. First, we give…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Manuel Aprile

We study the approximate maximum weight matching (MWM) problem in a fully dynamic graph subject to edge insertions and deletions. We design meta-algorithms that reduce the problem to the unweighted approximate maximum cardinality matching…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Aaron Bernstein , Jiale Chen

In the (fully) dynamic set cover problem, we have a collection of $m$ sets from a universe of size $n$ that undergo element insertions and deletions; the goal is to maintain an approximate set cover of the universe after each update. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Sepehr Assadi , Shay Solomon

This study considers the (soft) capacitated vertex cover problem in a dynamic setting. This problem generalizes the dynamic model of the vertex cover problem, which has been intensively studied in recent years. Given a dynamically changing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Hao-Ting Wei , Wing-Kai Hon , Paul Horn , Chung-Shou Liao , Kunihiko Sadakane

Modern networks are highly dynamic, and temporal graphs capture these changes through discrete edge appearances on a fixed vertex set, known in advance up to the graph's lifetime. The Vertex Cover problem extends to the temporal setting as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Sophia Heck , Eleni Akrida

Minimum vertex cover problem is an NP-Hard problem with the aim of finding minimum number of vertices to cover graph. In this paper, a learning automaton based algorithm is proposed to find minimum vertex cover in graph. In the proposed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-12-02 Aylin Mousavian , Alireza Rezvanian , Mohammad Reza Meybodi

In a graph, a (perfect) matching cut is an edge cut that is a (perfect) matching. Matching Cut (MC), respectively, Perfect Matching Cut (PMC), is the problem of deciding whether a given graph has a matching cut, respectively, a perfect…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Hoang-Oanh Le , Van Bang Le