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We are given an instance (G,I,sigma) with a graph G=(V,E), a set I of items, and a function sigma:V -> 2^I. For a subset X of V, let G[X] denote the subgraph induced from G by X, and I_sigma(X) denote the common item set over X. A subset X of V such that G[X] is connected is called a connector if, for any vertex v in V\X, G[X cup {v}] is not connected or I_sigma(X cup {v}) is a proper subset of I_sigma(X).
In this paper, we present the first polynomial-delay algorithm for enumerating all connectors. For this, we first extend the problem of enumerating connectors to a general setting so that the connectivity condition on X in G can be specified in a more flexible way. We next design a new algorithm for enumerating all solutions in the general setting, which leads to a polynomial-delay algorithm for enumerating all connectors for several connectivity conditions on X in G, such as the biconnectivity of G[X] or the k-edge-connectivity among vertices in X in G.
@InProceedings{haraguchi_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2019.3,
author = {Haraguchi, Kazuya and Nagamochi, Hiroshi},
title = {{A Polynomial-Delay Algorithm for Enumerating Connectors Under Various Connectivity Conditions}},
booktitle = {30th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2019)},
pages = {3:1--3:15},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-130-6},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2019},
volume = {149},
editor = {Lu, Pinyan and Zhang, Guochuan},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2019.3},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-114990},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2019.3},
annote = {Keywords: Graph with itemsets, Enumeration, Polynomial-delay algorithms, Connectors}
}