In this paper we Study the parameterized complexity of probability amplification for some parameterized probabilistic classes. We prove that it is very Unlikely that W vertical bar P vertical bar has the probability a...
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In this paper we Study the parameterized complexity of probability amplification for some parameterized probabilistic classes. We prove that it is very Unlikely that W vertical bar P vertical bar has the probability amplification property. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Many parameterized problems (such as the clique problem and the dominating set problem) ask, given an instance and a natural number k as parameter, whether there is a solution of size k. We analyze the relationship be...
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Many parameterized problems (such as the clique problem and the dominating set problem) ask, given an instance and a natural number k as parameter, whether there is a solution of size k. We analyze the relationship between the complexity of such a problem and the corresponding maximality (minimality) problem asking for a solution of size k maximal (minimal) with respect to set inclusion. As our results show, many maximality problems increase the parameterized complexity, while "in terms of the W-hierarchy" minimality problems do not increase the complexity. We also address the corresponding construction, listing, and counting problems. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
parameterized complexity is a part of computer science dealing with the computational complexity of problems measured not only by the length of their input but also some parameter of the input. Nei- ghborhood diversit...
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parameterized complexity is a part of computer science dealing with the computational complexity of problems measured not only by the length of their input but also some parameter of the input. Nei- ghborhood diversity is a recently introduced parameter describing a certain structure of a graph. is parameter is aractive for resear especially because some problems whi are hard with respect to other parameters that are incomparable with neighborhood diversity become fixed-parameter tractable with respect to neighborhood diversity. In this thesis we show fixed-parameter tractability for three problems that are hard with respect to treewidth. is constitutes the main part of this thesis and it is our original work. Next it contains an overview of other interesting problems and also a survey of the state of the art in the area of parameters for sparse and dense graphs. 1
Many tractable algorithms for solving the Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) have been developed using the notion of the treewidth of some graph derived from the input CSP instance. In particular, the incidence gra...
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Many tractable algorithms for solving the Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) have been developed using the notion of the treewidth of some graph derived from the input CSP instance. In particular, the incidence graph of the CSP instance is one such graph. We introduce the notion of an incidence graph for modal logic formulas in a certain normal form. We investigate the parameterized complexity of modal satisfiability with the modal depth of the formula and the treewidth of the incidence graph as parameters. For various combinations of Euclidean, reflexive, symmetric, and transitive models, we show either that modal satisfiability is Fixed Parameter Tractable (FPT), or that it is W[1]-hard. In particular, modal satisfiability in general models is FPT, while it is W[1]-hard in transitive models. As might be expected, modal satisfiability in transitive and Euclidean models is FPT.
Optimal Lobbying is the problem a lobbyist or a campaign manager faces in a full-information voting scenario of a multi-issue referendum when trying to influence the result. The Lobby is faced with a profile that spec...
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(纸本)9781627487665;1627487662
Optimal Lobbying is the problem a lobbyist or a campaign manager faces in a full-information voting scenario of a multi-issue referendum when trying to influence the result. The Lobby is faced with a profile that specifies for each voter and each issue whether the voter approves or rejects the issue, and seeks to find the smallest set of voters it must influence to change their vote, for a desired outcome to be obtained. We study the computational complexity of Optimal Lobbying when the issues are aggregated using an anonymous monotone function and the family of desired outcomes is an upward-closed family. We analyze this problem with regard to two parameters: the minimal number of supporters needed to pass an issue, and the size of the maximal minter of the desired set. We show that for extreme values of the parameters, the problem is tractable, and provide algorithms. On the other hand, we prove intractability of the problem for the complementary cases, which are most of the values of the parameters.
We say that there is a community structure in a graph when the nodes of the graph can be partitioned into groups (communities) such that each group is internally more densely connected than with the rest of the graph....
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(纸本)9781921770203
We say that there is a community structure in a graph when the nodes of the graph can be partitioned into groups (communities) such that each group is internally more densely connected than with the rest of the graph. However, the challenge is to specify what is to be dense, and what is relatively more connected (there seems to exist an analogous situation to what is a cluster in unsupervized learning). Recently, Olsen (2012) provided a general definition that seemed to be significantly more generic that others. We make two observations regarding such definition. (1) First, we show that finding a community structure with two equal size communities is NP-complete (Uniform 2-Communities). The first implication of this is that finding a large community seems intractable. The second implication is that, since this is a hardness result for k = 2, the Uniform k-Communities problem is not fixed-parameter tractable when k is the parameter. (2) The second observation is that communities are not required to be connected in Olsen (2012)'s definition. However, we indicate that our result holds as well as the results by Olsen (2012) when we require communities to be connected, and we show examples where using connected communities seems more natural.
In this paper, we study the complexity of several coloring problems on graphs, parameterized by the treewidth of the graph. 1. The LIST COLORING problem takes as input a graph G. together with an assignment to each ve...
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In this paper, we study the complexity of several coloring problems on graphs, parameterized by the treewidth of the graph. 1. The LIST COLORING problem takes as input a graph G. together with an assignment to each vertex v of a set of colors C-v. The problem is to determine whether it is possible to choose a color for vertex v from the set of permitted colors C-v, for each vertex, so that the obtained coloring of G is proper. We show that this problem is W[1]-hard, parameterized by the treewidth of G. The closely related PRECOLORING EXTENSION problem is also shown to be W[1]-hard, parameterized by treewidth. 2. An equitable coloring of a graph G is a proper coloring of the vertices where the numbers of vertices having any two distinct colors differs by at most one. We show that the problem is hard for W[1], parameterized by the treewidth plus the number of colors. We also show that a list-based variation, LIST EQUITABLE COLORING is W[1]-hard for forests, parameterized by the number of colors on the lists. 3. The list chromatic number chi(l)(G) of a graph G is defined to be the smallest positive integer r, such that for every assignment to the vertices v of C. of a list L-v of colors, where each list has length at least r, there is a choice of one color from each vertex list L-v yielding a proper coloring of G. We show that the problem of determining whether chi(l)(G) <= r, the LIST CHROMATIC NUMBER problem, is solvable in linear time on graphs of constant treewidth. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Given an undirected graph G and an integer d >= 0, the NP-hard BOUNDED-DEGREE VERTEX DELETION problem asks to delete as few vertices as possible from G such that the resulting graph has maximum vertex degree d. Our...
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Given an undirected graph G and an integer d >= 0, the NP-hard BOUNDED-DEGREE VERTEX DELETION problem asks to delete as few vertices as possible from G such that the resulting graph has maximum vertex degree d. Our main result is to prove that BOUNDED-DEGREE VERTEX DELETION is W[1]-hard with respect to the parameter treewidth. As a Side result, we obtain that the NP-hard VECTOR DOMINATING SET problem is W[1]-hard with respect to the parameter treewidth. On the positive side, we show that BOUNDED-DEGREE VERTEX DELETION becomes fixed-parameter tractable when parameterized by the combined parameter treewidth and number of vertices to delete, and when parametrized by the feedback edge set number. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
In Kanazawa (1998) [1], the learnability of several parameterized families of categorial grammar classes was studied. These classes were shown to be learnable in the technical sense of identifiability in the limit fro...
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In Kanazawa (1998) [1], the learnability of several parameterized families of categorial grammar classes was studied. These classes were shown to be learnable in the technical sense of identifiability in the limit from positive data. They are defined in terms of bounds on parameters of the grammars which intuitively correspond to restrictions on linguistic aspects, such as the amount of lexical ambiguity. The time complexity of learning these classes has been studied in Costa Florncio (2003) [2]. It was shown that, for most of these classes, selecting a grammar from the class that is consistent with given data is NP-hard. In this paper existing complexity results are sharpened by demonstrating W[2]-hardness. Additionally, parameters are defined that allow FPT-results;roughly, this implies that if these parameters are fixed, these problems become tractable. We also define the new family G(k-sum-val), which is natural from the viewpoints of parameterized complexity, a flourishing area of complexity Theory (see Downey and Fellows (1999) [3]) and from Descriptional complexity, a sub-area of Formal Language Theory (see Holzer and Kutrib (2010) [4]). We prove its learnability, analyze its relation to other classes from the literature and prove a hierarchy theorem. This approach is then generalized to a parameterized family defined in terms of a bound on the descriptional complexity expressed as a Holder norm. We show that both the hierarchy result and the property of finite elasticity (and thus learnability) are preserved under this generalization. (c) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
In the SUBGRAPH ISOMORPHISM problem we are given two graphs F and G on k and n vertices respectively as an input, and the question is whether there exists a subgraph of G isomorphic to F. We show that if the treewidth...
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In the SUBGRAPH ISOMORPHISM problem we are given two graphs F and G on k and n vertices respectively as an input, and the question is whether there exists a subgraph of G isomorphic to F. We show that if the treewidth of F is at most t, then there is a randomized algorithm for the SUBGRAPH ISOMORPHISM problem running in time O*(2(k)(n(2t)). Our proof is based on a novel construction of an arithmetic circuit of size at most n(O)(t) for a new multivariate polynomial, Homomorphism Polynomial, of degree at most k, which in turn is used to solve the SUBGRAPH ISOMORPHISM problem. For the counting version of the SUBGRAPH ISOMORPHISM problem, where the objective is to count the number of distinct subgraphs of G that are isomorphic to F, we give a deterministic algorithm running oki in time and space O*(((n)(k/2))n(2p)) or ((n)(k/2))nO((tlogk)). We also give an algorithm running in time O*(2(k)((n)(k/2))n(5p)) and taking O*(n(p)) space. Here p and t denote the pathwidth and the treewidth of F, respectively. Our work improves on the previous results on SUBGRAPH ISOMORPHISM, it also extends and unifies most of the known results on sub-path and sub-tree isomorphisms. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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