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A temporal graph is a finite sequence of graphs, called snapshots, over the same vertex set. Many temporal graph problems turn out to be much more difficult than their static counterparts. One such problem is \textsc{Timeline Vertex Cover}…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Anton Herrmann , Christian Komusiewicz , Nils Morawietz , Frank Sommer

In the k-arc connected subgraph problem, we are given a directed graph G and an integer k and the goal is the find a subgraph of minimum cost such that there are at least k-arc disjoint paths between any pair of vertices. We give a simple…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-05-09 Bundit Laekhanukit , Shayan Oveis Gharan , Mohit Singh

Ordered matchings, defined as graphs with linearly ordered vertices, where each vertex is connected to exactly one edge, play a crucial role in the area of ordered graphs and their homomorphisms. Therefore, we consider related problems from…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Michal Čertík , Andreas Emil Feldmann , Jaroslav Nešetřil , Paweł Rzążewski

Given a straight-line drawing of a graph, a segment is a maximal set of edges that form a line segment. Given a planar graph $G$, the segment number of $G$ is the minimum number of segments that can be achieved by any planar straight-line…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Sabine Cornelsen , Giordano Da Lozzo , Luca Grilli , Siddharth Gupta , Jan Kratochvíl , Alexander Wolff

A set of vertices $W$ in a graph $G$ is called resolving if for any two distinct $x,y\in V(G)$, there is $v\in W$ such that ${\rm dist}_G(v,x)\neq{\rm dist}_G(v,y)$, where ${\rm dist}_G(u,v)$ denotes the length of a shortest path between…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Gregory Gutin , M. S. Ramanujan , Felix Reidl , Magnus Wahlström

In the Trivially Perfect Editing problem one is given an undirected graph $G = (V,E)$ and an integer $k$ and seeks to add or delete at most $k$ edges in $G$ to obtain a trivially perfect graph. In a recent work, Dumas, Perez and Todinca…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Maël Dumas , Anthony Perez

We extend the notion of lossy kernelization, introduced by Lokshtanov et al. [STOC 2017], to approximate Turing kernelization. An $\alpha$-approximate Turing kernel for a parameterized optimization problem is a polynomial-time algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Eva-Maria C. Hols , Stefan Kratsch , Astrid Pieterse

This paper continues the study of a new variant of graph coloring with a connectivity constraint recently introduced by Hsieh et al. [COCOON 2024]. A path in a vertex-colored graph is called conflict-free if there is a color that appears…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Carl Feghali , Hoang-Oanh Le , Van Bang Le

We consider extension variants of the classical graph problems Vertex Cover and Independent Set. Given a graph $G=(V,E)$ and a vertex set $U \subseteq V$, it is asked if there exists a minimal vertex cover (resp.\ maximal independent set)…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Katrin Casel , Henning Fernau , Mehdi Khosravian Ghadikolaei , Jérôme Monnot , Florian Sikora

Given a graph $G = (V, E)$ with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, the DominatingSet problem asks for a set $D \subseteq V$ of minimal cardinality such that every vertex either is in $D$ or adjacent to a member of $D$. Although there is little…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Lukas Geis , Alexander Leonhardt , Johannes Meintrup , Ulrich Meyer , Manuel Penschuck , Lukas Retschmeier

The problem of finding a minimum vertex cover (MVC) in a graph is a well-known NP-hard problem with significant practical applications in optimization and scheduling. Its complexity, combined with the increasing scale of problems,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Enqiang Zhu , Qiqi Bao , Yu Zhang , Chanjuan Liu

We consider the parameterized version of the maximum internal spanning tree problem, which, given an $n$-vertex graph and a parameter $k$, asks for a spanning tree with at least $k$ internal vertices. Fomin et al. [J. Comput. System Sci.,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-30 Wenjun Li , Jianxin Wang , Jianer Chen , Yixin Cao

When considering a graph problem from a parameterized point of view, the parameter chosen is often the size of an optimal solution of this problem (the "standard" parameter). A natural subject for investigation is what happens when we…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-10-14 Nicolas Bourgeois , Konrad K. Dabrowski , Marc Demange , Vangelis Th. Paschos

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

A vertex in a graph dominates itself and each of its adjacent vertices. The \emph{$k$-tuple domination problem}, for a fixed positive integer $k$, is to find a minimum sized vertex subset in a given graph such that every vertex is dominated…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-22 María Patricia Dobson , Valeria Leoni , María Inés Lopez Pujato

Let integers $r\ge 2$ and $d\ge 3$ be fixed. Let ${\cal G}_d$ be the set of graphs with no induced path on $d$ vertices. We study the problem of packing $k$ vertex-disjoint copies of $K_{1,r}$ ($k\ge 2$) into a graph $G$ from parameterized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-10-14 Florian Barbero , Gregory Gutin , Mark Jones , Bin Sheng , Anders Yeo

A graph is called a sum graph if its vertices can be labelled by distinct positive integers such that there is an edge between two vertices if and only if the sum of their labels is the label of another vertex of the graph. Most papers on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Henning Fernau , Kshitij Gajjar

We consider (closed neighbourhood) packings and their generalization in graphs called limited packings. A vertex set X in a graph G is a k-limited packing if for any vertex $v\in V(G)$, $\left|N[v] \cap X\right| \le k$, where $N[v]$ is the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-07-08 Andrei Gagarin , Vadim Zverovich

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

The study of parameterized streaming complexity on graph problems was initiated by Fafianie et al. (MFCS'14) and Chitnis et al. (SODA'15 and SODA'16). Simply put, the main goal is to design streaming algorithms for parameterized problems…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Arijit Bishnu , Arijit Ghosh , Sudeshna Kolay , Gopinath Mishra , Saket Saurabh