• Acyclic, star, and injective colouring: bounding the diameter∗ 

      Brause, Christoph; Golovach, Petr; Martin, Barnaby; Ochem, Pascal; Paulusma, Daniël; Smith, Siani (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      We examine the effect of bounding the diameter for a number of natural and well-studied variants of the COLOURING problem. A colouring is acyclic, star, or injective if any two colour classes induce a forest, star forest ...
    • An Algorithmic Meta-Theorem for Graph Modification to Planarity and FOL 

      Fomin, Fedor; Golovach, Petr; Stamoulis, Giannos; Thilikos, Dimitrios M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      In general, a graph modification problem is defined by a graph modification operation ⊠ and a target graph property 𝒫. Typically, the modification operation ⊠ may be vertex removal, edge removal, edge contraction, or edge ...
    • Approximating Acyclicity Parameters of Sparse Hypergraphs 

      Fomin, Fedor; Golovach, Petr; Thilikos, Dimitrios (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2009)
      The notions of hypertree width and generalized hypertree width were introduced by Gottlob, Leone, and Scarcello (PODS'99, PODS'01) in order to extend the concept of hypergraph acyclicity. These notions were further generalized ...
    • Clustering to Given Connectivities 

      Golovach, Petr; Thilikos, Dimitrios M. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      We define a general variant of the graph clustering problem where the criterion of density for the clusters is (high) connectivity. In Clustering to Given Connectivities, we are given an n-vertex graph G, an integer k, and ...
    • Connecting Vertices by Independent Trees 

      Basavaraju, Manu; Fomin, Fedor; Golovach, Petr; Saurabh, Saket (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      We study the paramereteized complexity of the following connectivity problem. For a vertex subset U of a graph G, trees T1, . . . , Ts of G are completely independent spanning trees of U if each of them contains U , and ...
    • Covering Vectors by Spaces in Perturbed Graphic Matroids and Their Duals 

      Fomin, Fedor; Golovach, Petr; Lokshtanov, Daniel; Saurabh, Saket; Zehavi, Meirav (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Perturbed graphic matroids are binary matroids that can be obtained from a graphic matroid by adding a noise of small rank. More precisely, an r-rank perturbed graphic matroid M is a binary matroid that can be represented ...
    • Cyclability in Graph Classes 

      Crespelle, Christophe Dominique; Feghali, Carl; Golovach, Petr (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      A subset T subseteq V(G) of vertices of a graph G is said to be cyclable if G has a cycle C containing every vertex of T, and for a positive integer k, a graph G is k-cyclable if every subset of vertices of G of size at ...
    • Cyclability in graph classes 

      Crespelle, Christophe Dominique; Golovach, Petr (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      A subset T ⊆ V(G) of vertices of a graph G is said to be cyclable if G has a cycle C containing every vertex of T, and for a positive integer k, a graph G is k-cyclable if every set of vertices of size at most k is cyclable. ...
    • Detours in Directed Graphs 

      Fomin, Fedor; Golovach, Petr; Lochet, William Alexandre; Sagunov, Danil; Simonov, Kirill; Saurabh, Saket (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      We study two "above guarantee" versions of the classical Longest Path problem on undirected and directed graphs and obtain the following results. In the first variant of Longest Path that we study, called Longest Detour, ...
    • Diverse Collections in Matroids and Graphs 

      Fomin, Fedor; Golovach, Petr; Panolan, Fahad; Philip, Geevarghese; Saurabh, Saket (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      We investigate the parameterized complexity of finding diverse sets of solutions to three fundamental combinatorial problems, two from the theory of matroids and the third from graph theory. The input to the Weighted Diverse ...
    • Diverse Pairs of Matchings 

      Fomin, Fedor; Golovach, Petr; Jaffke, Lars; Philip, Geevarghese; Sagunov, Danil (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      We initiate the study of the Diverse Pair of (Maximum/ Perfect) Matchings problems which given a graph G and an integer k, ask whether G has two (maximum/perfect) matchings whose symmetric difference is at least k. Diverse ...
    • Editing to Eulerian Graphs 

      Dabrowski, Konrad K.; Golovach, Petr; van' t Hof, Pim; Paulusma, Daniël (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      We investigate the problem of modifying a graph into a connected graph in which the degree of each vertex satisfies a prescribed parity constraint. Let ea, ed and vd denote the operations edge addition, edge deletion and ...
    • Enumerating minimal connected dominating sets in graphs of bounded chordality 

      Golovach, Petr; Heggernes, Pinar; Kratsch, Dieter (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)
      Listing, generating or enumerating objects of specified type is one of the principal tasks in algorithmics. In graph algorithms one often enumerates vertex subsets satisfying a certain property. We study the enumeration ...
    • ETH Tight Algorithms for Geometric Intersection Graphs: Now in Polynomial Space 

      Fomin, Fedor; Golovach, Petr; Inamdar, Tanmay Nitin; Saurabh, Saket (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      De Berg et al. in [SICOMP 2020] gave an algorithmic framework for subexponential algorithms on geometric graphs with tight (up to ETH) running times. This framework is based on dynamic programming on graphs of weighted ...
    • Exact Exponential Algorithms for Clustering Problems 

      Fomin, Fedor; Golovach, Petr; Inamdar, Tanmay Nitin; Purohit, Nidhi; Saurabh, Saket (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      In this paper we initiate a systematic study of exact algorithms for some of the well known clustering problems, namely k-MEDIAN and k-MEANS. In k-MEDIAN, the input consists of a set X of n points belonging to a metric ...
    • FPT Approximation for Fair Minimum-Load Clustering 

      Bandyapadhyay, Sayan; Fomin, Fedor; Golovach, Petr; Purohit, Nidhi; Simonov, Kirill (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      In this paper, we consider the Minimum-Load k-Clustering/Facility Location (MLkC) problem where we are given a set P of n points in a metric space that we have to cluster and an integer k > 0 that denotes the number of ...
    • Going Far from Degeneracy 

      Fomin, Fedor; Golovach, Petr; Lokshtanov, Daniel; Panolan, Fahad; Saurabh, Saket; Zehavi, Meirav (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      An undirected graph $G$ is $d$-degenerate if every subgraph of $G$ has a vertex of degree at most $d$. By the classical theorem of Erdös and Gallai from 1959, every graph of degeneracy $d>1$ contains a cycle of length at ...
    • Going Far From Degeneracy 

      Fomin, Fedor; Golovach, Petr; Lokshtanov, Daniel; Panolan, Fahad; Saurabh, Saket; Zehavi, Meirav (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-09-06)
      An undirected graph G is d-degenerate if every subgraph of G has a vertex of degree at most d. By the classical theorem of Erd\H{o}s and Gallai from 1959, every graph of degeneracy d>1 contains a cycle of length at least ...
    • Hitting Topological Minor Models in Planar Graphs is Fixed Parameter Tractable 

      Golovach, Petr; Thilikos, Dimitrios; Stamoulis, Giannos (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      For a finite collection of graphs F, the F-TM-Deletion problem has as input an n-vertex graph G and an integer k and asks whether there exists a set S ⊆ V(G) with |S| ≤ k such that G \ S does not contain any of the graphs ...
    • Kernelization of Graph Hamiltonicity: Proper H-Graphs 

      Chaplick, Steven; Fomin, Fedor; Golovach, Petr; Knop, Dusan; Zeman, Peter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      We obtain new polynomial kernels and compression algorithms for Path Cover and Cycle Cover, the well-known generalizations of the classical Hamiltonian Path and Hamiltonian Cycle problems. Our choice of parameterization ...