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most citedRevisiting Connected Vertex Cover: FPT Algorithms and Lossy Kernels

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26 papers

cs.DS2026

On the Parameterized Complexity of Conflict-Free Edge Cut in Undirected Graphs

Sourav Das, Ashwin Jacob, Arpit Kumar +1

In this paper, we study CONFLICT-FREE EDGE CUT (CF-CUT), which is a recently introduced conflict-free version of the MIN-CUT problem that asks to find the minimum number of edges t…

cs.DS2026

A Polynomial Kernel for Vertex Deletion to the Scattered Class of Proper Interval Graph and Trees

Ashwin Jacob, Arpit Kumar, Diptapriyo Majumdar

Vertex deletion to the hereditary graph class has been well-studied in parameterized complexity. Vertex deletion in scattered graph classes has attracted attention in recent years.…

cs.DS2026

Polynomial Kernels for Spanning Tree with Diversity Requirements

Petr A. Golovach, Diptapriyo Majumdar, Saket Saurabh

Given a connected undirected graph , a spanning tree is a subgraph of such that and is a tree. A collection of spanning trees $T_1,\ldots,T_\ell…

cs.DS2026

On the Parameterized Tractability of Packing Vertex-Disjoint A-Paths with Length Constraints

Susobhan Bandopadhyay, Aritra Banik, Diptapriyo Majumdar +1

Given an undirected graph G and a set A \subseteq V(G), an A-path is a path in G that starts and ends at two distinct vertices of A with intermediate vertices in V(G) \setminus A.…

cs.DS2025

On the Structural Parameterizations of 2-Club with Triangle Constraints

Ashwin Jacob, Diptapriyo Majumdar, Raghav Sakhuja

Given an undirected graph G = (V, E) and an integer k, the s-Club asks if Gcontains a vertex subset S of at least k vertices such that G[S] has diameter at most s. Recently, Vertex…

cs.DM2025

Polynomial-Size Enumeration Kernelizations for Long Path Enumeration

Christian Komusiewicz, Diptapriyo Majumdar, Frank Sommer

Enumeration kernelization for parameterized enumeration problems was defined by Creignou et al. [Theory Comput. Syst. 2017] and was later refined by Golovach et al. [J. Comput. Sys…

cs.DS2024

Structural Parameterization of Locating-Dominating Set and Test Cover

Dipayan Chakraborty, Florent Foucaud, Diptapriyo Majumdar +1

We investigate structural parameterizations of two identification problems: LOCATING-DOMINATING SET and TEST COVER. In the first problem, an input is a graph on vertices an…

cs.DS2024

A Polynomial Kernel for Deletion to the Scattered Class of Cliques and Trees

Ashwin Jacob, Diptapriyo Majumdar, Meirav Zehavi

The class of graph deletion problems has been extensively studied in theoretical computer science, particularly in the field of parameterized complexity. Recently, a new notion of…

cs.DS2024

Parameterized Complexity of Dominating Set Variants in Almost Cluster and Split Graphs

Dishant Goyal, Ashwin Jacob, Kaushtubh Kumar +2

We consider structural parameterizations of the fundamental Dominating Set problem and its variants in the parameter ecology program. We give improved FPT algorithms and lower boun…

cs.CR2024

Bi-objective Optimization in Role Mining

Jason Crampton, Eduard Eiben, Gregory Gutin +2

Role mining is a technique used to derive a role-based authorization policy from an existing policy. Given a set of users , a set of permissions and a user-permission author…

cs.DS2024

Tight (Double) Exponential Bounds for Identification Problems: Locating-Dominating Set and Test Cover

Dipayan Chakraborty, Florent Foucaud, Diptapriyo Majumdar +1

We investigate fine-grained algorithmic aspects of identification problems in graphs and set systems, with a focus on Locating-Dominating Set and Test Cover. We prove the (tight) c…

cs.DS2023

Highly Connected Steiner Subgraph -- Parameterized Algorithms and Applications to Hitting Set Problems

Eduard Eiben, Diptapriyo Majumdar, M. S. Ramanujan

Given a simple connected undirected graph G = (V, E), a set X \subseteq V(G), and integers k and p, STEINER SUBGRAPH EXTENSION problem asks if there exists a set S \supseteq X with…

cs.DM2023

On the Polynomial Kernelizations of Finding a Shortest Path with Positive Disjunctive Constraints

Susobhan Bandopadhyay, Suman Banerjee, Diptapriyo Majumdar +1

We study the SHORTEST PATH problem with positive disjunctive constraints from the perspective of parameterized complexity. For positive disjunctive constraints, there are certain p…

cs.DS2023

Enumeration Kernels of Polynomial Size for Cuts of Bounded Degree

Christian Komusiewicz, Diptapriyo Majumdar

Enumeration kernelization was first proposed by Creignou et al. [TOCS 2017] and was later refined by Golovach et al. [JCSS 2022] into two different variants: fully-polynomial enume…

cs.DS2023

Expansion Lemma -- Variations and Applications to Polynomial-Time Preprocessing

Ashwin Jacob, Diptapriyo Majumdar, Venkatesh Raman

In parameterized complexity, it is well-known that a parameterized problem is fixed-parameter tractable if and only if it has a kernel - an instance equivalent to the input instanc…

cs.DS2022

An Improved Time-Efficient Approximate Kernelization for Connected Treedepth Deletion Set

Eduard Eiben, Diptapriyo Majumdar, M. S. Ramanujan

We study the CONNECTED η-TREEDEPTH DELETION problem where the input instance is an undireted graph G = (V, E) and an integer k. The objective is to decide if G has a set S \subsete…

cs.DS2022

Deletion to Scattered Graph Classes II -- Improved FPT Algorithms for Deletion to Pairs of Graph Classes

Ashwin Jacob, Diptapriyo Majumdar, Venkatesh Raman

Let be a hereditary graph class. The problem of deletion to , takes as input a graph and asks for a minimum number (or a fixed integer ) of vertices to be deleted fro…

cs.DS2021

Valued Authorization Policy Existence Problem: Theory and Experiments

Jason Crampton, Eduard Eiben, Gregory Gutin +2

Recent work has shown that many problems of satisfiability and resiliency in workflows may be viewed as special cases of the authorization policy existence problem (APEP), which re…

cs.DS2021

Deletion to Scattered Graph Classes I -- case of finite number of graph classes

Ashwin Jacob, Jari J. H. de Kroon, Diptapriyo Majumdar +1

Graph-modification problems, where we modify a graph by adding or deleting vertices or edges or contracting edges to obtain a graph in a {\it simpler} class, is a well-studied opti…

cs.CR2021

Towards Better Understanding of User Authorization Query Problem via Multi-variable Complexity Analysis

Jason Crampton, Gregory Gutin, Diptapriyo Majumdar

User authorization queries in the context of role-based access control have attracted considerable interest in the last 15 years. Such queries are used to determine whether it is p…

cs.DS2020

p-Edge/Vertex-Connected Vertex Cover: Parameterized and Approximation Algorithms

Carl Einarson, Gregory Gutin, Bart M. P. Jansen +2

We introduce and study two natural generalizations of the Connected VertexCover (VC) problem: the -Edge-Connected and -Vertex-Connected VC problem (where is a fixe…

cs.DS2019

Parameterized Pre-coloring Extension and List Coloring Problems

Gregory Gutin, Diptapriyo Majumdar, Sebastian Ordyniak +1

Golovach, Paulusma and Song (Inf. Comput. 2014) asked to determine the parameterized complexity of the following problems parameterized by : (1) Given a graph , a clique modu…

cs.DS2019★ 9 cited

On the Approximate Compressibility of Connected Vertex Cover

Diptapriyo Majumdar, M. S. Ramanujan, Saket Saurabh

The Connected Vertex Cover problem, where the goal is to compute a minimum set of vertices in a given graph which forms a vertex cover and induces a connected subgraph, is a fundam…

cs.DS2019

Bounded and Approximate Strong Satisfiability in Workflows

Jason Crampton, Gregory Gutin, Diptapriyo Majumdar

There has been a considerable amount of interest in recent years in the problem of workflow satisfiability, which asks whether the existence of constraints in a workflow specificat…