Dominator Coloring and CD Coloring in Almost Cluster Graphs

In this paper, we study two popular variants of Graph Coloring -- Dominator Coloring and CD Coloring. In both problems, we are given a graph $G$ and a natural number $\ell$ as input and the goal is to properly color the vertices with at most $\ell$ colors with specific constraints. In Dominator Coloring, we require for each $v \in V(G)$, a color $c$ such that $v$ dominates all vertices colored $c$. In CD Coloring, we require for each color $c$, a $v \in V(G)$ which dominates all vertices colored $c$. These problems, defined due to their applications in social and genetic networks, have been studied extensively in the last 15 years. While it is known that both problems are fixed-parameter tractable (FPT) when parameterized by $(t,\ell)$ where $t$ is the treewidth of $G$, we consider strictly structural parameterizations which naturally arise out of the problems' applications. We prove that Dominator Coloring is FPT when parameterized by the size of a graph's cluster vertex deletion (CVD) set and that CD Coloring is FPT parameterized by CVD set size plus the number of remaining cliques. En route, we design a simpler and faster FPT algorithms when the problems are parameterized by the size of a graph's twin cover, a special CVD set. When the parameter is the size of a graph's clique modulator, we design a randomized single-exponential time algorithm for the problems. These algorithms use an inclusion-exclusion based polynomial sieving technique and add to the growing number of applications using this powerful algebraic technique.Comment: 29 pages, 3 figure

LIPIcs, Volume 244, ESA 2022, Complete Volume

LIPIcs, Volume 244, ESA 2022, Complete Volum

Algorithmes exponentiels pour l'étiquetage, la domination et l'ordonnancement

This manuscript of Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches enlights some results obtained since my PhD, I defended in 2007. The presented results have been mainly published in international conferences and journals. Exponential-time algorithms are given to solve various decision, optimization and enumeration problems. First, we are interested in solving the L(2,1)-labeling problem for which several algorithms are described (based on branching, divide-and-conquer and dynamic programming). Some combinatorial bounds are also established to analyze those algorithms. Then we solve domination-like problems. We develop algorithms to solve a generalization of the dominating set problem and we give algorithms to enumerate minimal dominating sets in some graph classes. As a consequence, the analysis of these algorithms implies combinatorial bounds. Finally, we extend our field of applications of moderately exponential-time algorithms to scheduling problems. By using dynamic programming paradigm and by extending the sort-and-search approach, we are able to solve a family of scheduling problems.Ce manuscrit d’Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches met en lumière quelques résultats obtenus depuis ma thèse de doctorat soutenue en 2007. Ces résultats ont été, pour l’essentiel, publiés dans des conférences et des journaux internationaux. Des algorithmes exponentiels sont donnés pour résoudre des problèmes de décision, d’optimisation et d’énumération. On s’intéresse tout d’abord au problème d’étiquetage L(2,1) d’un graphe, pour lequel différents algorithmes sont décrits (basés sur du branchement, le paradigme diviser-pour-régner, ou la programmation dynamique). Des bornes combinatoires, nécessaires à l’analyse de ces algorithmes, sont également établies. Dans un second temps, nous résolvons des problèmes autour de la domination. Nous développons des algorithmes pour résoudre une généralisation de la domination et nous donnons des algorithmes pour énumérer les ensembles dominants minimaux dans des classes de graphes. L’analyse de ces algorithmes implique des bornes combinatoires. Finalement, nous étendons notre champ d’applications de l’algorithmique modérément exponentielle à des problèmes d’ordonnancement. Par le développement d’approches de type programmation dynamique et la généralisation de la méthode trier-et-chercher, nous proposons la résolution de toute une famille de problèmes d’ordonnancement

LIPIcs, Volume 274, ESA 2023, Complete Volume

LIPIcs, Volume 274, ESA 2023, Complete Volum

LIPIcs, Volume 248, ISAAC 2022, Complete Volume

LIPIcs, Volume 248, ISAAC 2022, Complete Volum

LIPIcs, Volume 261, ICALP 2023, Complete Volume

LIPIcs, Volume 261, ICALP 2023, Complete Volum