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Graph searches and their respective search trees are widely used in algorithmic graph theory. The problem whether a given spanning tree can be a graph search tree has been considered for different searches, graph classes and search tree…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Robert Scheffler

Although Breadth-First Search (BFS) has several advantages over Depth-First Search (DFS) its prohibitive space requirements have meant that algorithm designers often pass it over in favor of DFS. To address this shortcoming, we introduce a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-07-05 Srinivas Nedunuri , William R. Cook , Douglas R. Smith

The Breadth First Search (BFS) algorithm is the foundation and building block of many higher graph-based operations such as spanning trees, shortest paths and betweenness centrality. The importance of this algorithm increases each day due…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Julian Romera

For a given graph $G$, a depth-first search (DFS) tree $T$ of $G$ is an $r$-rooted spanning tree such that every edge of $G$ is either an edge of $T$ or is between a \textit{descendant} and an \textit{ancestor} in $T$. A graph $G$ together…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Emmanuel Sam , Benjamin Bergougnoux , Petr A. Golovach , Nello Blaser

To find a shortest path between two nodes $s_0$ and $s_1$ in a given graph, a classical approach is to start a Breadth-First Search (BFS) from $s_0$ and run it until the search discovers $s_1$. Alternatively, one can start two Breadth-First…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Sacha Cerf , Benjamin Dayan , Umberto De Ambroggio , Marc Kaufmann , Johannes Lengler , Ulysse Schaller

Preference restrictions have played a significant role in computational social choice. This paper studies a framework that connects preference restrictions with classical graph search paradigms. We model candidates as vertices of a graph…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Guozhen Rong , Xin Li , Yongjie Yang

The {\sc Directed Maximum Leaf Out-Branching} problem is to find an out-branching (i.e. a rooted oriented spanning tree) in a given digraph with the maximum number of leaves. In this paper, we improve known parameterized algorithms and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-07-10 Noga Alon , Fedor V. Fomin , Gregory Gutin , Michael Krivelevich , Saket Saurabh

Graph searching is one of the simplest and most widely used tools in graph algorithms. Every graph search method is defined using some particular selection rule, and the analysis of the corresponding vertex orderings can aid greatly in…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Matjaž Krnc , Nevena Pivač

We study the problem of maintaining a breadth-first spanning tree and the induced BFS ordering in a directed graph under edge updates. While semi-dynamic algorithms are known, maintaining the spanning tree, level information, and numbering…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Gregory Morse , Tamás Kozsik

Breadth-first search (BFS) is known as a basic search strategy for learning graph properties. As the scales of graph databases have increased tremendously in recent years, large-scale graphs G are often disk-resident. Obtaining the BFS…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Xiaolong Wan , Xixian Han

The Rooted Maximum Leaf Outbranching problem consists in finding a spanning directed tree rooted at some prescribed vertex of a digraph with the maximum number of leaves. Its parameterized version asks if there exists such a tree with at…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-04-20 Jean Daligault , Stephan Thomasse

Evolving graphs arise in problems where interrelations between data change over time. We present a breadth first search (BFS) algorithm for evolving graphs that computes the most direct influences between nodes at two different times. Using…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-03-07 Jiahao Chen , Weijian Zhang

Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) and Breadth-First Search (BFS) tree constructions are classical problems in distributed computing, traditionally studied in the message-passing model, where static nodes communicate via messages. This paper…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Prabhat Kumar Chand , Manish Kumar , Anisur Rahaman Molla

Search is a central problem in artificial intelligence, and breadth-first search (BFS) and depth-first search (DFS) are the two most fundamental ways to search. In this paper we derive estimates for average BFS and DFS runtime. The average…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Tom Everitt , Marcus Hutter

We consider the problem of compactly representing the Depth First Search (DFS) tree of a given undirected or directed graph having $n$ vertices and $m$ edges while supporting various DFS related queries efficiently in the RAM with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Sankardeep Chakraborty , Kunihiko Sadakane

We prove that finding a rooted subtree with at least $k$ leaves in a digraph is a fixed parameter tractable problem. A similar result holds for finding rooted spanning trees with many leaves in digraphs from a wide family $\cal L$ that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Noga Alon , Fedor Fomin , Gregory Gutin , Michael Krivelevich , Saket Saurabh

In the context of algorithm theory, various studies have been conducted on spanning trees with desirable properties. In this paper, we consider the \textsc{Minimum Cover Spanning Tree} problem (MCST for short). Given a graph $G$ and a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Toranosuke Kokai , Akira Suzuki , Takahiro Suzuki , Yuma Tamura , Xiao Zhou

The {\sc Directed Maximum Leaf Out-Branching} problem is to find an out-branching (i.e. a rooted oriented spanning tree) in a given digraph with the maximum number of leaves. In this paper, we obtain two combinatorial results on the number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-03-06 N Alon , F. V. Fomin , G. Gutin , M. Krivelevich , S. Saurabh

We consider the problem of finding a spanning tree with maximum number of leaves (MaxLeaf). A 2-approximation algorithm is known for this problem, and a 3/2-approximation algorithm when restricted to graphs where every vertex has degree 3…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-12-02 Paul Bonsma

A layerwise search in a split-by-edges tree (as defined by Br{\ae}ndeland, 2015) of agiven graph produces a maximum independent set in exponential time. A depth-first search produces an independent set, which may or may not be a maximum, in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-06 Asbjørn Brændeland
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