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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FUN.2022.15
Making Life More Confusing for Firefighters

Authors: Samuel D. Hand, Jessica Enright, and Kitty Meeks

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 226, 11th International Conference on Fun with Algorithms (FUN 2022)

Abstract
It is well known that fighting a fire is a hard task. The Firefighter problem asks how to optimally deploy firefighters to defend the vertices of a graph from a fire. This problem is NP-Complete on all but a few classes of graphs. Thankfully, firefighters do not have to work alone, and are often aided by the efforts of good natured civillians who slow the spread of a fire by maintaining firebreaks when they are able. We will show that this help, although well-intentioned, unfortunately makes the optimal deployment of firefighters an even harder problem. To model this scenario we introduce the Temporal Firefighter problem, an extension of Firefighter to temporal graphs. We show that Temporal Firefighter is also NP-Complete, and remains so on all but one of the underlying classes of graphs on which Firefighter is known to have polynomial time solutions. This motivates us to explore making use of the temporal structure of the graph in our search for tractability, and we conclude by presenting an FPT algorithm for Temporal Firefighter with respect to the temporal graph parameter vertex-interval-membership-width.
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Samuel D. Hand, Jessica Enright, and Kitty Meeks. Making Life More Confusing for Firefighters. In 11th International Conference on Fun with Algorithms (FUN 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 226, pp. 15:1-15:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{hand_et_al:LIPIcs.FUN.2022.15,
  author =	{Hand, Samuel D. and Enright, Jessica and Meeks, Kitty},
  title =	{{Making Life More Confusing for Firefighters}},
  booktitle =	{11th International Conference on Fun with Algorithms (FUN 2022)},
  pages =	{15:1--15:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-232-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{226},
  editor =	{Fraigniaud, Pierre and Uno, Yushi},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FUN.2022.15},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-159851},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FUN.2022.15},
  annote =	{Keywords: Temporal graphs, Spreading processes, Parameterised complexity}
}
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Brief Announcement
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SAND.2022.22
Brief Announcement: The Temporal Firefighter Problem

Authors: Samuel D. Hand, Jessica Enright, and Kitty Meeks

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 221, 1st Symposium on Algorithmic Foundations of Dynamic Networks (SAND 2022)

Abstract
The Firefighter problem asks how many vertices can be saved from a fire spreading over the vertices of a graph. At timestep 0 a vertex begins burning, then on each subsequent timestep a non-burning vertex is chosen to be defended, and the fire then spreads to all undefended vertices that it neighbours. The problem is NP-Complete on arbitrary graphs, however existing work has found several graph classes for which there are polynomial time solutions. We introduce Temporal Firefighter, an extension of Firefighter to temporal graphs. We show that Temporal Firefighter is also NP-Complete, and remains so on all but one of the underlying classes of graphs on which Firefighter is known to have a polynomial-time solution. This motivates us to explore restrictions on the temporal structure of the graph, and we find that Temporal Firefighter is fixed parameter tractable with respect to the temporal graph parameter vertex-interval-membership-width.
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Samuel D. Hand, Jessica Enright, and Kitty Meeks. Brief Announcement: The Temporal Firefighter Problem. In 1st Symposium on Algorithmic Foundations of Dynamic Networks (SAND 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 221, pp. 22:1-22:3, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{hand_et_al:LIPIcs.SAND.2022.22,
  author =	{Hand, Samuel D. and Enright, Jessica and Meeks, Kitty},
  title =	{{Brief Announcement: The Temporal Firefighter Problem}},
  booktitle =	{1st Symposium on Algorithmic Foundations of Dynamic Networks (SAND 2022)},
  pages =	{22:1--22:3},
  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-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SAND.2022.22},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-159644},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SAND.2022.22},
  annote =	{Keywords: Temporal graphs, Spreading processes, Parameterised complexity}
}
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