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We investigate the problem of simultaneously dominating all spanning trees of a given graph. We prove that on 2-connected graphs, a subset of the vertices dominates all spanning trees of the graph if and only if it is a vertex cover. Using…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-17 Sebastian S. Johann , Sven O. Krumke , Manuel Streicher

We live in a world increasingly dominated by networks -- communications, social, information, biological etc. A central attribute of many of these networks is that they are dynamic, that is, they exhibit structural changes over time. While…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-12-02 Prithwish Basu , Amotz Bar-Noy , Ram Ramanathan , Matthew P. Johnson

A temporal graph is a graph in which edges are assigned a time label. Two nodes u and v of a temporal graph are connected one to the other if there exists a path from u to v with increasing edge time labels. We consider the problem of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Alkida Balliu , Filippo Brunelli , Pierluigi Crescenzi , Dennis Olivetti , Laurent Viennot

Subexponential parameterized algorithms are known for a wide range of natural problems on planar graphs, but the techniques are usually highly problem specific. The goal of this paper is to introduce a framework for obtaining…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Dániel Marx , Pranabendu Misra , Daniel Neuen , Prafullkumar Tale

The paper deals with the Feedback Vertex Set problem parameterized by the solution size. Given a graph $G$ and a parameter $k$, one has to decide if there is a set $S$ of at most $k$ vertices such that $G-S$ is acyclic. Assuming the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Gaétan Berthe , Marin Bougeret , Daniel Gonçalves , Jean-Florent Raymond

In the eternal vertex cover problem, mobile guards on the vertices of a graph are used to defend it against an infinite sequence of attacks on its edges by moving to neighbor vertices. The eternal vertex cover problem consists in…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Tiziana Calamoneri , Federico Corò

An efficient dominating set (or perfect code) in a graph is a set of vertices the closed neighborhoods of which partition the vertex set of the graph. The minimum weight efficient domination problem is the problem of finding an efficient…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-11-26 Andreas Brandstädt , Pavel Fičur , Arne Leitert , Martin Milanič

A strength of parameterized algorithmics is that each problem can be parameterized by an essentially inexhaustible set of parameters. Usually, the choice of the considered parameter is informed by the theoretical relations between…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Christian Komusiewicz , Nils Morawietz , Frank Sommer , Luca Pascal Staus

Dominating set problems are among the most important class of combinatorial problems in graph optimization, from a theoretical as well as from a practical point of view. In this paper, we address the recently introduced (minimum) weighted…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-09 Eduardo Álvarez-Miranda , Markus Sinnl

A dominating set $D$ of a graph $G$ is a set of vertices such that any vertex in $G$ is in $D$ or its neighbor is in $D$. Enumeration of minimal dominating sets in a graph is one of central problems in enumeration study since enumeration of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Kazuhiro Kurita , Kunihiro Wasa , Hiroki Arimura , Takeaki Uno

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

The NP-complete graph problem Cluster Editing seeks to transform a static graph into a disjoint union of cliques by making the fewest possible edits to the edges. We introduce a natural interpretation of this problem in temporal graphs,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Cristiano Bocci , Chiara Capresi , Kitty Meeks , John Sylvester

In the Partial Vertex Cover (PVC) problem, we are given an $n$-vertex graph $G$ and a positive integer $k$, and the objective is to find a vertex subset $S$ of size $k$ maximizing the number of edges with at least one end-point in $S$. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Fahad Panolan , Hannane Yaghoubizade

Finding dense subnetworks, with density based on edges or more complex structures, such as subgraphs or $k$-cliques, is a fundamental algorithmic problem with many applications. While the problem has been studied extensively in static…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Ilie Sarpe , Fabio Vandin , Aristides Gionis

In this paper we study the problem of discovering a timeline of events in a temporal network. We model events as dense subgraphs that occur within intervals of network activity. We formulate the event-discovery task as an optimization…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Polina Rozenshtein , Francesco Bonchi , Aristides Gionis , Mauro Sozio , Nikolaj Tatti

Logistics and transportation networks require a large amount of resources to realize necessary connections between locations and minimizing these resources is a vital aspect of planning research. Since such networks have dynamic connections…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Argyrios Deligkas , Michelle Döring , Eduard Eiben , Tiger-Lily Goldsmith , George Skretas , Georg Tennigkeit

We study the Minimum Sum Vertex Cover problem, which asks for an ordering of vertices in a graph that minimizes the total cover time of edges. In particular, n vertices of the graph are visited according to an ordering, and for each edge…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Aleksa Stanković

We consider structural parameterizations of the fundamental Dominating Set problem and its variants in the parameter ecology program. We give improved FPT algorithms and lower bounds under well-known conjectures for dominating set in graphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Dishant Goyal , Ashwin Jacob , Kaushtubh Kumar , Diptapriyo Majumdar , Venkatesh Raman

The dominating set problem (DSP) is one of the most famous problems in combinatorial optimization. It is defined as follows. For a given simple graph $G=(V,E)$, a dominating set of $G$ is a subset $S\subseteq V$ such that every vertex in $…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Nima Ghanbari , Gerold Jäger , Tuomo Lehtilä

Eternal vertex cover is the following two-player game between a defender and an attacker on a graph. Initially, the defender positions k guards on k vertices of the graph; the game then proceeds in turns between the defender and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Tiziana Calamoneri , Federico Corò , Giacomo Paesani