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This paper deals with the complexity of some natural graph problems when parametrized by {measures that are restrictions of} clique-width, such as modular-width and neighborhood diversity. The main contribution of this paper is to introduce…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Gennaro Cordasco , Luisa Gargano , Adele Anna Rescigno

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

We prove that for every positive integer $r$ and for every graph class $\mathcal G$ of bounded expansion, the $r$-Dominating Set problem admits a linear kernel on graphs from $\mathcal G$. Moreover, when $\mathcal G$ is only assumed to be…

We investigate preprocessing for vertex-subset problems on graphs. While the notion of kernelization, originating in parameterized complexity theory, is a formalization of provably effective preprocessing aimed at reducing the total…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Benjamin Merlin Bumpus , Bart M. P. Jansen , Jari J. H. de Kroon

We investigate computational problems involving large weights through the lens of kernelization, which is a framework of polynomial-time preprocessing aimed at compressing the instance size. Our main focus is the weighted Clique problem,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Bart M. P. Jansen , Shivesh K. Roy , Michał Włodarczyk

A kernelization algorithm for a computational problem is a procedure which compresses an instance into an equivalent instance whose size is bounded with respect to a complexity parameter. For the Boolean satisfiability problem (SAT), and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Victor Lagerkvist , Magnus Wahlström

We investigate the List $H$-Coloring problem, the generalization of graph coloring that asks whether an input graph $G$ admits a homomorphism to the undirected graph $H$ (possibly with loops), such that each vertex $v \in V(G)$ is mapped to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Hubie Chen , Bart M. P. Jansen , Karolina Okrasa , Astrid Pieterse , Paweł Rzążewski

In the literature, several different identification problems in graphs have been studied, the most widely studied such problems are the ones based on dominating sets as a tool of identification. Hereby, the objective is to separate any two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Dipayan Chakraborty , Annegret K. Wagler

The input to the NP-hard Point Line Cover problem (PLC) consists of a set $P$ of $n$ points on the plane and a positive integer $k$, and the question is whether there exists a set of at most $k$ lines which pass through all points in $P$. A…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-07-10 Stefan Kratsch , Geevarghese Philip , Saurabh Ray

A kernelization is an efficient algorithm that given an instance of a parameterized problem returns an equivalent instance of size bounded by some function of the input parameter value. It is quite well understood which problems do or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Leonid Antipov , Stefan Kratsch

A polynomial Turing kernel for some parameterized problem $P$ is a polynomial-time algorithm that solves $P$ using queries to an oracle of $P$ whose sizes are upper-bounded by some polynomial in the parameter. Here the term "polynomial"…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Till Fluschnik , Klaus Heeger , Danny Hermelin

For a fixed graph $H$, the $H$-SUBGRAPH HITTING problem consists in deleting the minimum number of vertices from an input graph to obtain a graph without any occurrence of $H$ as a subgraph. This problem can be seen as a generalization of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Marin Bougeret , Bart M. P. Jansen , Ignasi Sau

For a given graph $G = (V, E)$, a subset of the vertices $D\subseteq V$ is called a semitotal dominating set, if $D$ is a dominating set and every vertex $v \in D$ is within distance two to another witness $v' \in D$. We want to find a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Lukas Retschmeier

Golovach, Paulusma and Song (Inf. Comput. 2014) asked to determine the parameterized complexity of the following problems parameterized by $k$: (1) Given a graph $G$, a clique modulator $D$ (a clique modulator is a set of vertices, whose…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Gregory Gutin , Diptapriyo Majumdar , Sebastian Ordyniak , Magnus Wahlström

Graph Burning asks, given a graph $G = (V,E)$ and an integer $k$, whether there exists $(b_{0},\dots,b_{k-1}) \in V^{k}$ such that every vertex in $G$ has distance at most $i$ from some $b_{i}$. This problem is known to be NP-complete even…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Yasuaki Kobayashi , Yota Otachi

Enumerative kernelization is a recent and promising area sitting at the intersection of parameterized complexity and enumeration algorithms. Its study began with the paper of Creignou et al. [Theory Comput. Syst., 2017], and development in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Marin Bougeret , Guilherme C. M. Gomes , Vinicius F. dos Santos , Ignasi Sau

We study kernelization of classic hard graph problems when the input graphs fulfill triadic closure properties. More precisely, we consider the recently introduced parameters closure number $c$ and the weak closure number $\gamma$ [Fox et…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Tomohiro Koana , Christian Komusiewicz , Frank Sommer

In this paper we study the problem of finding a small safe set $S$ in a graph $G$, i.e. a non-empty set of vertices such that no connected component of $G[S]$ is adjacent to a larger component in $G - S$. We enhance our understanding of the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Rémy Belmonte , Tesshu Hanaka , Ioannis Katsikarelis , Michael Lampis , Hirotaka Ono , Yota Otachi

A domination-based identification problem on a graph $G$ is one where the objective is to choose a subset $C$ of the vertex set of $G$ such that $C$ has both, a domination property, that is, $C$ is either a dominating or a total-dominating…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Dipayan Chakraborty , Annegret K. Wagler

Assume that a graph $G$ models a detection system for a facility with a possible ``intruder," or a multiprocessor network with a possible malfunctioning processor. We consider the problem of placing detectors at a subset of vertices in $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-15 Devin Jean , Suk Seo