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部分覆盖问题的参数化算法

Parameterized Algorithms for Partial Cover Problems

Omid Amini, Fedor V. Fomin, Saket Saurabh

摘要:

覆盖问题是最优化、计算机科学和复杂性理论中的基本经典问题。通常,这些问题的输入是有限论域上的集合族,目标是用尽可能少的集合族覆盖论域的元素。覆盖问题的变化包括众所周知的问题,如集覆盖,顶点覆盖,支配集和设施位置仅举几例。部分覆盖问题是覆盖问题的一个自然推广,近年来已有大量的研究。这里,目标不是覆盖所有元素,而是用最少数量的集合覆盖指定数量的元素。在本文中,我们研究部分覆盖问题的图在参数化的复杂性领域。所有这些问题的经典(非部分)版本已被深入研究,在平面图和图不包括一个固定的图$H$作为一个小的。然而,为非部分覆盖问题的参数化版本开发的技术不能直接应用于它们的部分对应物。我们使用的方法,以显示各种部分覆盖问题是固定参数的平面图,有界局部树宽和图形的图形不包括一些图作为一个未成年人,是完全不同的,从以前已知的技术。我们的方法背后的主要思想是隐式分支的概念。我们发现隐式分支技术本身是有趣的,并相信它可以用于其他一些问题。

英文摘要:

Covering problems are fundamental classical problems in optimization, computer science and complexity theory. Typically an input to these problems is a family of sets over a finite universe and the goal is to cover the elements of the universe with as few sets of the family as possible. The variations of covering problems include well known problems like Set Cover, Vertex Cover, Dominating Set and Facility Location to name a few. Recently there has been a lot of study on partial covering problems, a natural generalization of covering problems. Here, the goal is not to cover all the elements but to cover the specified number of elements with the minimum number of sets. In this paper we study partial covering problems in graphs in the realm of parameterized complexity. Classical (non-partial) version of all these problems have been intensively studied in planar graphs and in graphs excluding a fixed graph $H$ as a minor. However, the techniques developed for parameterized version of non-partial covering problems cannot be applied directly to their partial counterparts. The approach we use, to show that various partial covering problems are fixed parameter tractable on planar graphs, graphs of bounded local treewidth and graph excluding some graph as a minor, is quite different from previously known techniques. The main idea behind our approach is the concept of implicit branching. We find implicit branching technique to be interesting on its own and believe that it can be used for some other problems.

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