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The maximum clique problem is a well known NP-Hard problem with applications in data mining, network analysis, information retrieval and many other areas related to the World Wide Web. There exist several algorithms for the problem with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-01 Bharath Pattabiraman , Md. Mostofa Ali Patwary , Assefaw H. Gebremedhin , Wei-keng Liao , Alok Choudhary

We show that the problem k-Dominating Set and its several variants including k-Connected Dominating Set, k-Independent Dominating Set, and k-Dominating Clique, when parameterized by the solution size k, are W[1]-hard in either…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Minghui Jiang , Yong Zhang

Capacitated Vertex Cover is the hard-capacitated variant of Vertex Cover: given a graph, a capacity for every vertex, and an integer $k$, the task is to select at most $k$ vertices that cover all edges and assign each edge to one of its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Michael Lampis , Manolis Vasilakis

In this paper, we design a framework to obtain efficient algorithms for several problems with a global constraint (acyclicity or connectivity) such as Connected Dominating Set, Node Weighted Steiner Tree, Maximum Induced Tree, Longest…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Benjamin Bergougnoux , Mamadou Moustapha Kanté

A resolving set $S$ of a graph $G$ is a subset of its vertices such that no two vertices of $G$ have the same distance vector to $S$. The Metric Dimension problem asks for a resolving set of minimum size, and in its decision form, a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Édouard Bonnet , Nidhi Purohit

For a class $\mathcal{H}$ of graphs, #Sub$(\mathcal{H})$ is the counting problem that, given a graph $H\in \mathcal{H}$ and an arbitrary graph $G$, asks for the number of subgraphs of $G$ isomorphic to $H$. It is known that if $\mathcal{H}$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-07-11 Radu Curticapean , Dániel Marx

We give alternative definitions for maximum matching width, e.g. a graph $G$ has $\operatorname{mmw}(G) \leq k$ if and only if it is a subgraph of a chordal graph $H$ and for every maximal clique $X$ of $H$ there exists $A,B,C \subseteq X$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-10 Jisu Jeong , Sigve Hortemo Sæther , Jan Arne Telle

We study finding and listing $k$-cliques in a graph, for constant $k\geq 3$, a fundamental problem of both theoretical and practical importance. Our main contribution is a new output-sensitive algorithm for listing $k$-cliques in graphs,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Mina Dalirrooyfard , Surya Mathialagan , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Yinzhan Xu

We investigate fine-grained algorithmic aspects of identification problems in graphs and set systems, with a focus on Locating-Dominating Set and Test Cover. We prove the (tight) conditional lower bounds for these problems when…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Dipayan Chakraborty , Florent Foucaud , Diptapriyo Majumdar , Prafullkumar Tale

Mim-width and sim-width are among the most powerful graph width parameters, with sim-width more powerful than mim-width, which is in turn more powerful than clique-width. While several $\mathsf{NP}$-hard graph problems become tractable for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Andrea Munaro , Shizhou Yang

We show that the Minimal Length-Bounded L-But problem can be computed in linear time with respect to L and the tree-width of the input graph as parameters. In this problem the task is to find a set of edges of a graph such that after…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Dušan Knop , Pavel Dvořák

The bandwidth of a graph is the labeling of vertices with minimum maximum edge difference. For many graph families this is NP-complete. A classic result computes the bandwidth for the hypercube. We generalize this result to give sharp lower…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Tanya Y. Berger-Wolf , Mitchell A. Harris

We study the problem of approximating the number of $k$-cliques in a graph when given query access to the graph. We consider the standard query model for general graphs via (1) degree queries, (2) neighbor queries and (3) pair queries. Let…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Talya Eden , Dana Ron , C. Seshadhri

One of the most important algorithmic meta-theorems is a famous result by Courcelle, which states that any graph problem definable in monadic second-order logic with edge-set quantifications (i.e., MSO2 model-checking) is decidable in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-06-25 Robert Ganian , Petr Hliněný , Alexander Langer , Jan Obdržálek , Peter Rossmanith , Somnath Sikdar

In this work, we consider the problem of sampling a $k$-clique in a graph from an almost uniform distribution in sublinear time in the general graph query model. Specifically the algorithm should output each $k$-clique with probability…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Talya Eden , Dana Ron , Will Rosenbaum

We show, assuming the (randomized) Gap Exponential Time Hypothesis (Gap-ETH), that the following tasks cannot be done in $T(k) \cdot N^{o(k)}$-time for any function $T$ where $N$ denote the input size: - $\left(1 - \frac{1}{e} +…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Pasin Manurangsi

The Colouring problem is that of deciding, given a graph $G$ and an integer $k$, whether $G$ admits a (proper) $k$-colouring. For all graphs $H$ up to five vertices, we classify the computational complexity of Colouring for…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Konrad K. Dabrowski , François Dross , Daniël Paulusma

We study the well-known Vertex Cover problem parameterized above and below tight bounds. We show that two of the parameterizations (both were suggested by Mahajan, Raman and Sikdar, J. Computer and System Sciences, 75(2):137--153, 2009) are…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-08-28 Gregory Gutin , Eun Jung Kim , Michael Lampis , Valia Mitsou

The recently introduced graph parameter tree-cut width plays a similar role with respect to immersions as the graph parameter treewidth plays with respect to minors. In this paper, we provide the first algorithmic applications of tree-cut…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Robert Ganian , Eun Jung Kim , Stefan Szeider

The diameter of a graph is among its most basic parameters. Since a few years, it moreover became a key issue to compute it for massive graphs in the context of complex network analysis. However, known algorithms, including the ones…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-09-30 Clemence Magnien , Matthieu Latapy , Michel Habib