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A biclique is a maximal induced complete bipartite subgraph of a graph. We investigate the intersection structure of edge-sets of bicliques in a graph. Specifically, we study the associated edge-biclique hypergraph whose hyperedges are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-07-18 Marina Groshaus , Pavol Hell , Juraj Stacho

In this paper, motivated by a question posed in \cite{AH}, we introduce strongly biconvex graphs as a subclass of weakly chordal and bipartite graphs. We give a linear time algorithm to find an induced matching for such graphs and we prove…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2019-05-08 Sara Saeedi Madani , Dariush Kiani

Computing maximum independent sets in graphs is an important problem in computer science. In this paper, we develop an evolutionary algorithm to tackle the problem. The core innovations of the algorithm are very natural combine operations…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-02-06 Sebastian Lamm , Peter Sanders , Christian Schulz

Entanglement is a complexity measure of directed graphs that origins in fixed point theory. This measure has shown its use in designing efficient algorithms to verify logical properties of transition systems. We are interested in the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-04-09 Walid Belkhir , Luigi Santocanale

A dominating set of a graph is a set of vertices such that every vertex not in the set has at least one neighbor in the set. The problem of counting dominating sets is #P-complete for chordal graphs but solvable in polynomial time for its…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Min-Sheng Lin

For a subset $ S $ of $ \mathbb R^d$, $ S$-graphs are the intersection graphs of specific transformations of $ S $. The class of Burling graphs is a class of triangle-free graphs with arbitrarily large chromatic number that has attracted…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Pegah Pournajafi

Dallard, Milani\v{c}, and \v{S}torgel [arXiv '22] ask if for every class excluding a fixed planar graph $H$ as an induced minor, Maximum Independent Set can be solved in polynomial time, and show that this is indeed the case when $H$ is any…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Édouard Bonnet , Julien Duron , Colin Geniet , Stéphan Thomassé , Alexandra Wesolek

Many natural computational problems, including e.g. Max Weight Independent Set, Feedback Vertex Set, or Vertex Planarization, can be unified under an umbrella of finding the largest sparse induced subgraph, that satisfies some property…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Maria Chudnovsky , Jadwiga Czyżewska , Kacper Kluk , Marcin Pilipczuk , Paweł Rzążewski

Fan-planar graphs were recently introduced as a generalization of 1-planar graphs. A graph is fan-planar if it can be embedded in the plane, such that each edge that is crossed more than once, is crossed by a bundle of two or more edges…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-09-02 Michael A. Bekos , Sabine Cornelsen , Luca Grilli , Seok-Hee Hong , Michael Kaufmann

For any $\varepsilon > 0$, we give a polynomial-time $n^\varepsilon$-approximation algorithm for Max Independent Set in graphs of bounded twin-width given with an $O(1)$-sequence. This result is derived from the following time-approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Pierre Bergé , Édouard Bonnet , Hugues Déprés , Rémi Watrigant

Temporal graphs are graphs whose topology is subject to discrete changes over time. Given a static underlying graph $G$, a temporal graph is represented by assigning a set of integer time-labels to every edge $e$ of $G$, indicating the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-09-30 George B. Mertzios , Hendrik Molter , Rolf Niedermeier , Viktor Zamaraev , Philipp Zschoche

Community detection in graphs is a problem that is likely to be relevant whenever network data appears, and consequently the problem has received much attention with many different methods and algorithms applied. However, many of these…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Vilhelm Agdur

A maximal matching $M$ that consists of independent edges is a subgraph of a simple and undirected graph $G$ for which $G-M$ forms an independent set. A graph $G$ is called equimatchable if all maximal matchings have the same number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Mehmet Akif Yıldız

For a graph $H$, a graph $G$ is an $H$-graph if it is an intersection graph of connected subgraphs of some subdivision of $H$. $H$-graphs naturally generalize several important graph classes like interval or circular-arc graph. This class…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Jean-Florent Raymond

A graph is inductive $k$-independent if there exists and ordering of its vertices $v_{1},...,v_{n}$ such that $\alpha(G[N(v_{i})\cap V_{i}])\leq k $ where $N(v_{i})$ is the neighborhood of $v_{i}$, $V_{i}=\{v_{i},...,v_{n}\}$ and $\alpha$…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-09-21 George Manoussakis

The Persistent Perfect phylogeny, also known as Dollo-1, has been introduced as a generalization of the well-known perfect phylogenetic model for binary characters to deal with the potential loss of characters. The problem of deciding the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Paola Bonizzoni , Gianluca Della Vedova , Mauricio Soto Gomez , Gabriella Trucco

We develop an experimental algorithm for the exact solving of the maximum independent set problem. The algorithm consecutively finds the maximal independent sets of vertices in an arbitrary undirected graph such that the next such set…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-02 Anatoly D. Plotnikov

This paper deals with the problem of finding, for a given graph and a given natural number k, a subgraph of k nodes with a maximum number of edges. This problem is known as the k-cluster problem and it is NP-hard on general graphs as well…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-11-09 George B. Mertzios

A proper labeling of a graph is an assignment of integers to some elements of a graph, which may be the vertices, the edges, or both of them, such that we obtain a proper vertex coloring via the labeling subject to some conditions. The…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Ali Dehghan , Mohammad-Reza Sadeghi , Arash Ahadi

Tolerance graphs model interval relations in such a way that intervals can tolerate a certain amount of overlap without being in conflict. In one of the most natural generalizations of tolerance graphs with direct applications in the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Archontia C. Giannopoulou , George B. Mertzios