Given a bipartite graph G=(V_c,V_t,E) and a non-negative integer k, the NP-complete Minimum-Flip Consensus Tree problem asks whether G can be transformed, using up to k edge insertions and deletions, into a graph that does not contain an induced P_5 with its first vertex in V_t (a so-called M-graph or Sigma-graph). This problem plays an important role in computational phylogenetics, V_c standing for the characters and V_t standing for taxa. Chen et al. [IEEE/ACM TCBB 2006] showed that Minimum-Flip Consensus Tree is NP-complete and presented a parameterized algorithm with running time O(6^k\cdot |V_t|\cdot |V_c|). Recently, Boecker et al. [IWPEC'08] presented a refined search tree algorithm with running time O(4.83^k(|V_t|+|V_c|) + |V_t|\cdot |V_c|). We complement these results by polynomial-time executable data reduction rules yielding a problem kernel with O(k^3) vertices.
@InProceedings{komusiewicz_et_al:LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2008.1760, author = {Komusiewicz, Christian and Uhlmann, Johannes}, title = {{A Cubic-Vertex Kernel for Flip Consensus Tree}}, booktitle = {IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science}, pages = {280--291}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-939897-08-8}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2008}, volume = {2}, editor = {Hariharan, Ramesh and Mukund, Madhavan and Vinay, V}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2008.1760}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-17600}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2008.1760}, annote = {Keywords: Fixed-parameter algorithm, problem kernel, NP-hard problem, graph modification problem, computational phylogenetics} }
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