In this paper we study the fixed-parameter tractability of the problem of deciding whether a given temporal graph 𝒢 admits a temporal walk that visits all vertices (temporal exploration) or, in some problem variants, a certain subset of the vertices. Formally, a temporal graph is a sequence 𝒢 = ⟨ G₁,..., G_L⟩ of graphs with V(G_t) = V(G) and E(G_t) ⊆ E(G) for all t ∈ [L] and some underlying graph G, and a temporal walk is a time-respecting sequence of edge-traversals. For the strict variant, in which edges must be traversed in strictly increasing timesteps, we give FPT algorithms for the problem of finding a temporal walk that visits a given set X of vertices, parameterized by |X|, and for the problem of finding a temporal walk that visits at least k distinct vertices in V, parameterized by k. For the non-strict variant, in which an arbitrary number of edges can be traversed in each timestep, we parameterize by the lifetime L of the input graph and provide an FPT algorithm for the temporal exploration problem. We also give additional FPT or W[2]-hardness results for further problem variants.
@InProceedings{erlebach_et_al:LIPIcs.SAND.2022.15, author = {Erlebach, Thomas and Spooner, Jakob T.}, title = {{Parameterized Temporal Exploration Problems}}, booktitle = {1st Symposium on Algorithmic Foundations of Dynamic Networks (SAND 2022)}, pages = {15:1--15:17}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-224-2}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2022}, volume = {221}, editor = {Aspnes, James and Michail, Othon}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SAND.2022.15}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-159570}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.SAND.2022.15}, annote = {Keywords: Temporal graphs, fixed-parameter tractability, parameterized complexity} }
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