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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2024.36
Distance to Transitivity: New Parameters for Taming Reachability in Temporal Graphs

Authors: Arnaud Casteigts, Nils Morawietz, and Petra Wolf

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 306, 49th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2024)

Abstract
A temporal graph is a graph whose edges only appear at certain points in time. Reachability in these graphs is defined in terms of paths that traverse the edges in chronological order (temporal paths). This form of reachability is neither symmetric nor transitive, the latter having important consequences on the computational complexity of even basic questions, such as computing temporal connected components. In this paper, we introduce several parameters that capture how far a temporal graph 𝒢 is from being transitive, namely, vertex-deletion distance to transitivity and arc-modification distance to transitivity, both being applied to the reachability graph of 𝒢. We illustrate the impact of these parameters on the temporal connected component problem, obtaining several tractability results in terms of fixed-parameter tractability and polynomial kernels. Significantly, these results are obtained without restrictions of the underlying graph, the snapshots, or the lifetime of the input graph. As such, our results isolate the impact of non-transitivity and confirm the key role that it plays in the hardness of temporal graph problems.
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Arnaud Casteigts, Nils Morawietz, and Petra Wolf. Distance to Transitivity: New Parameters for Taming Reachability in Temporal Graphs. In 49th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 306, pp. 36:1-36:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{casteigts_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2024.36,
  author =	{Casteigts, Arnaud and Morawietz, Nils and Wolf, Petra},
  title =	{{Distance to Transitivity: New Parameters for Taming Reachability in Temporal Graphs}},
  booktitle =	{49th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2024)},
  pages =	{36:1--36:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-335-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{306},
  editor =	{Kr\'{a}lovi\v{c}, Rastislav and Ku\v{c}era, Anton{\'\i}n},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2024.36},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-205923},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2024.36},
  annote =	{Keywords: Temporal graphs, Parameterized complexity, Reachability, Transitivity}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2024.60
On the Complexity of Community-Aware Network Sparsification

Authors: Emanuel Herrendorf, Christian Komusiewicz, Nils Morawietz, and Frank Sommer

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 306, 49th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2024)

Abstract
In the NP-hard Π-Network Sparsification problem, we are given an edge-weighted graph G, a collection 𝒞 of c subsets of V(G), called communities, and two numbers 𝓁 and b, and the question is whether there exists a spanning subgraph G' of G with at most 𝓁 edges of total weight at most b such that G'[C] fulfills Π for each community C ∈ 𝒞. We study the fine-grained and parameterized complexity of two special cases of this problem: Connectivity NWS where Π is the connectivity property and Stars NWS, where Π is the property of having a spanning star. First, we provide a tight 2^Ω(n²+c)-time running time lower bound based on the ETH for both problems, where n is the number of vertices in G even if all communities have size at most 4, G is a clique, and every edge has unit weight. For the connectivity property, the unit weight case with G being a clique is the well-studied problem of computing a hypergraph support with a minimum number of edges. We then study the complexity of both problems parameterized by the feedback edge number t of the solution graph G'. For Stars NWS, we present an XP-algorithm for t answering an open question by Korach and Stern [Discret. Appl. Math. '08] who asked for the existence of polynomial-time algorithms for t = 0. In contrast, we show for Connectivity NWS that known polynomial-time algorithms for t = 0 [Korach and Stern, Math. Program. '03; Klemz et al., SWAT '14] cannot be extended to larger values of t by showing NP-hardness for t = 1.
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Emanuel Herrendorf, Christian Komusiewicz, Nils Morawietz, and Frank Sommer. On the Complexity of Community-Aware Network Sparsification. In 49th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 306, pp. 60:1-60:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{herrendorf_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2024.60,
  author =	{Herrendorf, Emanuel and Komusiewicz, Christian and Morawietz, Nils and Sommer, Frank},
  title =	{{On the Complexity of Community-Aware Network Sparsification}},
  booktitle =	{49th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2024)},
  pages =	{60:1--60:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-335-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{306},
  editor =	{Kr\'{a}lovi\v{c}, Rastislav and Ku\v{c}era, Anton{\'\i}n},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2024.60},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-206169},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2024.60},
  annote =	{Keywords: parameterized complexity, hypergraph support, above guarantee parameterization, exponential-time-hypothesis}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SAND.2024.12
Parameterized Algorithms for Multi-Label Periodic Temporal Graph Realization

Authors: Thomas Erlebach, Nils Morawietz, and Petra Wolf

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 292, 3rd Symposium on Algorithmic Foundations of Dynamic Networks (SAND 2024)

Abstract
In the periodic temporal graph realization problem introduced by Klobas et al. [SAND '24] one is given a period Δ and an n× n matrix D of desired fastest travel times, and the task is to decide if there is a simple periodic temporal graph with period Δ such that the fastest travel time between any pair of vertices matches the one specified by D. We generalize the problem from simple temporal graphs to temporal graphs where each edge can appear up to 𝓁 times in each period, for some given integer 𝓁. For the resulting problem Multi-Label Periodic TGR, we show that it is fixed-parameter tractable for parameter n and for parameter vc+Δ, where vc is the vertex cover number of the underlying graph. We also show the existence of a polynomial kernel for parameter nu+d_max, where nu is the number of non-universal vertices of the underlying graph and d_max is the largest entry of D. Furthermore, we show that the problem is NP-hard for each 𝓁 ≥ 5, even if the underlying graph is a tree, a case that was known to be solvable in polynomial time if the task is to construct a simple periodic temporal graph, that is, if 𝓁 = 1.
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Thomas Erlebach, Nils Morawietz, and Petra Wolf. Parameterized Algorithms for Multi-Label Periodic Temporal Graph Realization. In 3rd Symposium on Algorithmic Foundations of Dynamic Networks (SAND 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 292, pp. 12:1-12:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{erlebach_et_al:LIPIcs.SAND.2024.12,
  author =	{Erlebach, Thomas and Morawietz, Nils and Wolf, Petra},
  title =	{{Parameterized Algorithms for Multi-Label Periodic Temporal Graph Realization}},
  booktitle =	{3rd Symposium on Algorithmic Foundations of Dynamic Networks (SAND 2024)},
  pages =	{12:1--12:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-315-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{292},
  editor =	{Casteigts, Arnaud and Kuhn, Fabian},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SAND.2024.12},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-198909},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SAND.2024.12},
  annote =	{Keywords: Fixed-Parameter Tractability, Almost-Clique, Kernelization, Dynamic Network, Temporal Graph}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.IPEC.2023.20
Graph Clustering Problems Under the Lens of Parameterized Local Search

Authors: Jaroslav Garvardt, Nils Morawietz, André Nichterlein, and Mathias Weller

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 285, 18th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2023)

Abstract
Cluster Editing is the problem of finding the minimum number of edge-modifications that transform a given graph G into a cluster graph G', that is, each connected component of G' is a clique. Similarly, in the Cluster Deletion problem, we further restrict the sought cluster graph G' to contain only edges that are also present in G. In this work, we consider the parameterized complexity of a local search variant for both problems: LS Cluster Deletion and LS Cluster Editing. Herein, the input also comprises an integer k and a partition 𝒞 of the vertex set of G that describes an initial cluster graph G^*, and we are to decide whether the "k-move-neighborhood" of G^* contains a cluster graph G' that is "better" (uses less modifications) than G^*. Roughly speaking, two cluster graphs G₁ and G₂ are k-move-neighbors if G₁ can be obtained from G₂ by moving at most k vertices to different connected components. We consider parameterizations by k + 𝓁 for some natural parameters 𝓁, such as the number of clusters in 𝒞, the size of a largest cluster in 𝒞, or the cluster-vertex-deletion number (cvd) of G. Our main lower-bound results are that LS Cluster Editing is W[1]-hard when parameterized by k even if 𝒞 has size two and that both LS Cluster Deletion and LS Cluster Editing are W[1]-hard when parameterized by k + 𝓁, where 𝓁 is the size of the largest cluster of 𝒞. On the positive side, we show that both problems admit an algorithm that runs in k^{𝒪(k)}⋅ cvd^{3k} ⋅ n^{𝒪(1)} time and either finds a better cluster graph or correctly outputs that there is no better cluster graph in the k-move-neighborhood of the initial cluster graph. As an intermediate result, we also obtain an algorithm that solves Cluster Deletion in cvd^{cvd} ⋅ n^{𝒪(1)} time.
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Jaroslav Garvardt, Nils Morawietz, André Nichterlein, and Mathias Weller. Graph Clustering Problems Under the Lens of Parameterized Local Search. In 18th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 285, pp. 20:1-20:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{garvardt_et_al:LIPIcs.IPEC.2023.20,
  author =	{Garvardt, Jaroslav and Morawietz, Nils and Nichterlein, Andr\'{e} and Weller, Mathias},
  title =	{{Graph Clustering Problems Under the Lens of Parameterized Local Search}},
  booktitle =	{18th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2023)},
  pages =	{20:1--20:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-305-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{285},
  editor =	{Misra, Neeldhara and Wahlstr\"{o}m, Magnus},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.IPEC.2023.20},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-194391},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.IPEC.2023.20},
  annote =	{Keywords: parameterized local search, permissive local search, FPT, W\lbrack1\rbrack-hardness}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2023.54
On the Complexity of Computing Time Series Medians Under the Move-Split-Merge Metric

Authors: Jana Holznigenkemper, Christian Komusiewicz, Nils Morawietz, and Bernhard Seeger

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 272, 48th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2023)

Abstract
We initiate a study of the complexity of MSM-Median, the problem of computing a median of a set of k real-valued time series under the move-split-merge distance. This distance measure is based on three operations: moves, which may shift a data point in a time series; splits, which replace one data point in a time series by two consecutive data points of the same value; and merges, which replace two consecutive data points of equal value by a single data point of the same value. The cost of a move operation is the difference of the data point value before and after the operation, the cost of split and merge operations is defined via a given constant c. Our main results are as follows. First, we show that MSM-Median is NP-hard and W[1]-hard with respect to k for time series with at most three distinct values. Under the Exponential Time Hypothesis (ETH) our reduction implies that a previous dynamic programming algorithm with running time |I|^𝒪(k) [Holznigenkemper et al., Data Min. Knowl. Discov. '23] is essentially optimal. Here, |I| denotes the total input size. Second, we show that MSM-Median can be solved in 2^𝒪(d/c)⋅|I|^𝒪(1) time where d is the total distance of the median to the input time series.
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Jana Holznigenkemper, Christian Komusiewicz, Nils Morawietz, and Bernhard Seeger. On the Complexity of Computing Time Series Medians Under the Move-Split-Merge Metric. In 48th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 272, pp. 54:1-54:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{holznigenkemper_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2023.54,
  author =	{Holznigenkemper, Jana and Komusiewicz, Christian and Morawietz, Nils and Seeger, Bernhard},
  title =	{{On the Complexity of Computing Time Series Medians Under the Move-Split-Merge Metric}},
  booktitle =	{48th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2023)},
  pages =	{54:1--54:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-292-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{272},
  editor =	{Leroux, J\'{e}r\^{o}me and Lombardy, Sylvain and Peleg, David},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2023.54},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-185889},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2023.54},
  annote =	{Keywords: Parameterized Complexity, Median String, Time Series, ETH}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SEA.2023.14
A Graph-Theoretic Formulation of Exploratory Blockmodeling

Authors: Alexander Bille, Niels Grüttemeier, Christian Komusiewicz, and Nils Morawietz

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 265, 21st International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2023)

Abstract
We present a new simple graph-theoretic formulation of the exploratory blockmodeling problem on undirected and unweighted one-mode networks. Our formulation takes as input the network G and the maximum number t of blocks for the solution model. The task is to find a minimum-size set of edge insertions and deletions that transform the input graph G into a graph G' with at most t neighborhood classes. Herein, a neighborhood class is a maximal set of vertices with the same neighborhood. The neighborhood classes of G' directly give the blocks and block interactions of the computed blockmodel. We analyze the classic and parameterized complexity of the exploratory blockmodeling problem, provide a branch-and-bound algorithm, an ILP formulation and several heuristics. Finally, we compare our exact algorithms to previous ILP-based approaches and show that the new algorithms are faster for t ≥ 4.
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Alexander Bille, Niels Grüttemeier, Christian Komusiewicz, and Nils Morawietz. A Graph-Theoretic Formulation of Exploratory Blockmodeling. In 21st International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 265, pp. 14:1-14:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{bille_et_al:LIPIcs.SEA.2023.14,
  author =	{Bille, Alexander and Gr\"{u}ttemeier, Niels and Komusiewicz, Christian and Morawietz, Nils},
  title =	{{A Graph-Theoretic Formulation of Exploratory Blockmodeling}},
  booktitle =	{21st International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2023)},
  pages =	{14:1--14:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-279-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{265},
  editor =	{Georgiadis, Loukas},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SEA.2023.14},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-183648},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SEA.2023.14},
  annote =	{Keywords: Clustering, Exact Algorithms, ILP-Formulation, Branch-and-Bound, Social Networks}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2023.18
On the Complexity of Parameterized Local Search for the Maximum Parsimony Problem

Authors: Christian Komusiewicz, Simone Linz, Nils Morawietz, and Jannik Schestag

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 259, 34th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2023)

Abstract
Maximum Parsimony is the problem of computing a most parsimonious phylogenetic tree for a taxa set X from character data for X. A common strategy to attack this notoriously hard problem is to perform a local search over the phylogenetic tree space. Here, one is given a phylogenetic tree T and wants to find a more parsimonious tree in the neighborhood of T. We study the complexity of this problem when the neighborhood contains all trees within distance k for several classic distance functions. For the nearest neighbor interchange (NNI), subtree prune and regraft (SPR), tree bisection and reconnection (TBR), and edge contraction and refinement (ECR) distances, we show that, under the exponential time hypothesis, there are no algorithms with running time |I|^o(k) where |I| is the total input size. Hence, brute-force algorithms with running time |X|^𝒪(k) ⋅ |I| are essentially optimal. In contrast to the above distances, we observe that for the sECR-distance, where the contracted edges are constrained to form a subtree, a better solution within distance k can be found in k^𝒪(k) ⋅ |I|^𝒪(1) time.
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Christian Komusiewicz, Simone Linz, Nils Morawietz, and Jannik Schestag. On the Complexity of Parameterized Local Search for the Maximum Parsimony Problem. In 34th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 259, pp. 18:1-18:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{komusiewicz_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2023.18,
  author =	{Komusiewicz, Christian and Linz, Simone and Morawietz, Nils and Schestag, Jannik},
  title =	{{On the Complexity of Parameterized Local Search for the Maximum Parsimony Problem}},
  booktitle =	{34th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2023)},
  pages =	{18:1--18:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-276-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{259},
  editor =	{Bulteau, Laurent and Lipt\'{a}k, Zsuzsanna},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2023.18},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-179729},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2023.18},
  annote =	{Keywords: phylogenetic trees, parameterized complexity, tree distances, NNI, TBR}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.IPEC.2022.20
Parameterized Local Search for Vertex Cover: When Only the Search Radius Is Crucial

Authors: Christian Komusiewicz and Nils Morawietz

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 249, 17th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2022)

Abstract
A k-swap W for a vertex cover S of a graph G is a vertex set of size at most k such that S' = (S ⧵ W) ∪ (W ⧵ S), the symmetric difference of S and W, is a vertex cover of G. If |S'| < |S|, then W is improving. In LS-Vertex Cover, one is given a vertex cover S of a graph G and wants to know if there is an improving k-swap for S in G. In applications of LS-Vertex Cover, k is a very small parameter that can be set by a user to determine the trade-off between running time and solution quality. Consequently, k can be considered to be a constant. Motivated by this and the fact that LS-Vertex Cover is W[1]-hard with respect to k, we aim for algorithms with running time 𝓁^f(k) ⋅ n^𝒪(1) where 𝓁 is a structural graph parameter upper-bounded by n. We say that such a running time grows mildly with respect to 𝓁 and strongly with respect to k. We obtain algorithms with such a running time for 𝓁 being the h-index of G, the treewidth of G, or the modular-width of G. In addition, we consider a novel parameter, the maximum degree over all quotient graphs in a modular decomposition of G. Moreover, we adapt these algorithms to the more general problem where each vertex is assigned a weight and where we want to find a d-improving k-swap, that is, a k-swap which decreases the weight of the vertex cover by at least d.
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Christian Komusiewicz and Nils Morawietz. Parameterized Local Search for Vertex Cover: When Only the Search Radius Is Crucial. In 17th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 249, pp. 20:1-20:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{komusiewicz_et_al:LIPIcs.IPEC.2022.20,
  author =	{Komusiewicz, Christian and Morawietz, Nils},
  title =	{{Parameterized Local Search for Vertex Cover: When Only the Search Radius Is Crucial}},
  booktitle =	{17th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2022)},
  pages =	{20:1--20:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-260-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{249},
  editor =	{Dell, Holger and Nederlof, Jesper},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.IPEC.2022.20},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-173764},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.IPEC.2022.20},
  annote =	{Keywords: Local Search, Structural parameterization, Fixed-parameter tractability}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2022.66
Finding 3-Swap-Optimal Independent Sets and Dominating Sets Is Hard

Authors: Christian Komusiewicz and Nils Morawietz

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 241, 47th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2022)

Abstract
For PLS-complete local search problems, there is presumably no polynomial-time algorithm which finds a locally optimal solution, even though determining whether a solution is locally optimal and replacing it by a better one if this is not the case can be done in polynomial time. We study local search for Weighted Independent Set and Weighted Dominating Set with the 3-swap neighborhood. The 3-swap neighborhood of a vertex set S in G is the set of vertex sets which can be obtained from S by exchanging at most three vertices. We prove the following dichotomy: On the negative side, the problem of finding a 3-swap-optimal independent set or dominating set is PLS-complete. On the positive side, locally optimal independent sets or dominating sets can be found in polynomial time when allowing all 3-swaps except a) the swaps that remove two vertices from the current solution and add one vertex to the solution or b) the swaps that remove one vertex from the current solution and add two vertices to the solution.
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Christian Komusiewicz and Nils Morawietz. Finding 3-Swap-Optimal Independent Sets and Dominating Sets Is Hard. In 47th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 241, pp. 66:1-66:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{komusiewicz_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2022.66,
  author =	{Komusiewicz, Christian and Morawietz, Nils},
  title =	{{Finding 3-Swap-Optimal Independent Sets and Dominating Sets Is Hard}},
  booktitle =	{47th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2022)},
  pages =	{66:1--66:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-256-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{241},
  editor =	{Szeider, Stefan and Ganian, Robert and Silva, Alexandra},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2022.66},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-168644},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2022.66},
  annote =	{Keywords: Local Search, Graph problems, 3-swap neighborhood, PLS-completeness}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2021.77
A Timecop’s Chase Around the Table

Authors: Nils Morawietz and Petra Wolf

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 202, 46th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2021)

Abstract
We consider the cops and robbers game variant consisting of one cop and one robber on time-varying graphs (TVG). The considered TVGs are edge periodic graphs, i.e., for each edge, a binary string s_e determines in which time step the edge is present, namely the edge e is present in time step t if and only if the string s_e contains a 1 at position t mod |s_e|. This periodicity allows for a compact representation of an infinite TVG. We prove that even for very simple underlying graphs, i.e., directed and undirected cycles the problem whether a cop-winning strategy exists is NP-hard and W[1]-hard parameterized by the number of vertices. Our second main result are matching lower bounds for the ratio between the length of the underlying cycle and the least common multiple (lcm) of the lengths of binary strings describing edge-periodicies over which the graph is robber-winning. Our third main result improves the previously known EXPTIME upper bound for Periodic Cop & Robber on general edge periodic graphs to PSPACE-membership.
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Nils Morawietz and Petra Wolf. A Timecop’s Chase Around the Table. In 46th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 202, pp. 77:1-77:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)

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@InProceedings{morawietz_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2021.77,
  author =	{Morawietz, Nils and Wolf, Petra},
  title =	{{A Timecop’s Chase Around the Table}},
  booktitle =	{46th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2021)},
  pages =	{77:1--77:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-201-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{202},
  editor =	{Bonchi, Filippo and Puglisi, Simon J.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2021.77},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-145176},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2021.77},
  annote =	{Keywords: Time variable graph, Edge periodic cycle, Game of cops and robbers, Computational complexity}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2020.30
Colored Cut Games

Authors: Nils Morawietz, Niels Grüttemeier, Christian Komusiewicz, and Frank Sommer

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 182, 40th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2020)

Abstract
In a graph G = (V,E) with an edge coloring 𝓁:E → C and two distinguished vertices s and t, a colored (s,t)-cut is a set C̃ ⊆ C such that deleting all edges with some color c ∈ C̃ from G disconnects s and t. Motivated by applications in the design of robust networks, we introduce a family of problems called colored cut games. In these games, an attacker and a defender choose colors to delete and to protect, respectively, in an alternating fashion. It is the goal of the attacker to achieve a colored (s,t)-cut and the goal of the defender to prevent this. First, we show that for an unbounded number of alternations, colored cut games are PSPACE-complete. We then show that, even on subcubic graphs, colored cut games with a constant number i of alternations are complete for classes in the polynomial hierarchy whose level depends on i. To complete the dichotomy, we show that all colored cut games are polynomial-time solvable on graphs with degree at most two. Finally, we show that all colored cut games admit a polynomial kernel for the parameter k+κ_r where k denotes the total attacker budget and, for any constant r, κ_r is the number of vertex deletions that are necessary to transform G into a graph where the longest path has length at most r. In the case of r = 1, κ₁ is the vertex cover number vc of the input graph and we obtain a kernel with 𝒪(vc²k²) edges. Moreover, we introduce an algorithm solving the most basic colored cut game, Colored (s,t)-Cut, in 2^{vc + k}n^{𝒪(1)} time.
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Nils Morawietz, Niels Grüttemeier, Christian Komusiewicz, and Frank Sommer. Colored Cut Games. In 40th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 182, pp. 30:1-30:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)

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@InProceedings{morawietz_et_al:LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2020.30,
  author =	{Morawietz, Nils and Gr\"{u}ttemeier, Niels and Komusiewicz, Christian and Sommer, Frank},
  title =	{{Colored Cut Games}},
  booktitle =	{40th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2020)},
  pages =	{30:1--30:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-174-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{182},
  editor =	{Saxena, Nitin and Simon, Sunil},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2020.30},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-132719},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2020.30},
  annote =	{Keywords: Labeled Cut, Labeled Path, Network Robustness, Kernelization, PSPACE, Polynomial Hierarchy}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2020.71
A Timecop’s Work Is Harder Than You Think

Authors: Nils Morawietz, Carolin Rehs, and Mathias Weller

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 170, 45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2020)

Abstract
We consider the (parameterized) complexity of a cop and robber game on periodic, temporal graphs and a problem on periodic sequences to which these games relate intimately. In particular, we show that it is NP-hard to decide (a) whether there is some common index at which all given periodic, binary sequences are 0, and (b) whether a single cop can catch a single robber on an edge-periodic temporal graph. We further present results for various parameterizations of both problems and show that hardness not only applies in general, but also for highly limited instances. As one main result we show that even if the graph has a size-2 vertex cover and is acyclic in each time step, the cop and robber game on periodic, temporal graphs is NP-hard and W[1]-hard when parameterized by the size of the underlying input graph.
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Nils Morawietz, Carolin Rehs, and Mathias Weller. A Timecop’s Work Is Harder Than You Think. In 45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 170, pp. 71:1-71:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)

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@InProceedings{morawietz_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2020.71,
  author =	{Morawietz, Nils and Rehs, Carolin and Weller, Mathias},
  title =	{{A Timecop’s Work Is Harder Than You Think}},
  booktitle =	{45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2020)},
  pages =	{71:1--71:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-159-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{170},
  editor =	{Esparza, Javier and Kr\'{a}l', Daniel},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2020.71},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-127404},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2020.71},
  annote =	{Keywords: edge-periodic temporal graphs, cops and robbers, tally-intersection, congruence satisfyability}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SWAT.2020.26
Maximum Edge-Colorable Subgraph and Strong Triadic Closure Parameterized by Distance to Low-Degree Graphs

Authors: Niels Grüttemeier, Christian Komusiewicz, and Nils Morawietz

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 162, 17th Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory (SWAT 2020)

Abstract
Given an undirected graph G and integers c and k, the Maximum Edge-Colorable Subgraph problem asks whether we can delete at most k edges in G to obtain a graph that has a proper edge coloring with at most c colors. We show that Maximum Edge-Colorable Subgraph admits, for every fixed c, a linear-size problem kernel when parameterized by the edge deletion distance of G to a graph with maximum degree c-1. This parameterization measures the distance to instances that, due to Vizing’s famous theorem, are trivial yes-instances. For c≤ 4, we also provide a linear-size kernel for the same parameterization for Multi Strong Triadic Closure, a related edge coloring problem with applications in social network analysis. We provide further results for Maximum Edge-Colorable Subgraph parameterized by the vertex deletion distance to graphs where every component has order at most c and for the list-colored versions of both problems.
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Niels Grüttemeier, Christian Komusiewicz, and Nils Morawietz. Maximum Edge-Colorable Subgraph and Strong Triadic Closure Parameterized by Distance to Low-Degree Graphs. In 17th Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory (SWAT 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 162, pp. 26:1-26:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)

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@InProceedings{gruttemeier_et_al:LIPIcs.SWAT.2020.26,
  author =	{Gr\"{u}ttemeier, Niels and Komusiewicz, Christian and Morawietz, Nils},
  title =	{{Maximum Edge-Colorable Subgraph and Strong Triadic Closure Parameterized by Distance to Low-Degree Graphs}},
  booktitle =	{17th Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory (SWAT 2020)},
  pages =	{26:1--26:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-150-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{162},
  editor =	{Albers, Susanne},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SWAT.2020.26},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-122731},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SWAT.2020.26},
  annote =	{Keywords: Graph coloring, social networks, parameterized complexity, kernelization}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2020.17
String Factorizations Under Various Collision Constraints

Authors: Niels Grüttemeier, Christian Komusiewicz, Nils Morawietz, and Frank Sommer

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 161, 31st Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2020)

Abstract
In the NP-hard Equality-Free String Factorization problem, we are given a string S and ask whether S can be partitioned into k factors that are pairwise distinct. We describe a randomized algorithm for Equality-Free String Factorization with running time 2^k⋅ k^{𝒪(1)}+𝒪(n) improving over previous algorithms with running time k^{𝒪(k)}+𝒪(n) [Schmid, TCS 2016; Mincu and Popa, Proc. SOFSEM 2020]. Our algorithm works for the generalization of Equality-Free String Factorization where equality can be replaced by an arbitrary polynomial-time computable equivalence relation on strings. We also consider two factorization problems to which this algorithm does not apply, namely Prefix-Free String Factorization where we ask for a factorization of size k such that no factor is a prefix of another factor and Substring-Free String Factorization where we ask for a factorization of size k such that no factor is a substring of another factor. We show that these two problems are NP-hard as well. Then, we show that Prefix-Free String Factorization with the prefix-free relation is fixed-parameter tractable with respect to k by providing a polynomial problem kernel. Finally, we show a generic ILP formulation for R-Free String Factorization where R is an arbitrary relation on strings. This formulation improves over a previous one for Equality-Free String Factorization in terms of the number of variables.
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Niels Grüttemeier, Christian Komusiewicz, Nils Morawietz, and Frank Sommer. String Factorizations Under Various Collision Constraints. In 31st Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 161, pp. 17:1-17:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)

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@InProceedings{gruttemeier_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2020.17,
  author =	{Gr\"{u}ttemeier, Niels and Komusiewicz, Christian and Morawietz, Nils and Sommer, Frank},
  title =	{{String Factorizations Under Various Collision Constraints}},
  booktitle =	{31st Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2020)},
  pages =	{17:1--17:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-149-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{161},
  editor =	{G{\o}rtz, Inge Li and Weimann, Oren},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2020.17},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-121428},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2020.17},
  annote =	{Keywords: NP-hard problem, fixed-parameter algorithms, collision-aware string partitioning}
}
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