Parameterized Algorithms for Modular-Width

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Authors

GAJARSKÝ Jakub LAMPIS Michael ORDYNIAK Sebastian

Year of publication 2013
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Parameterized and Exact Computation
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Faculty of Informatics

Citation
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03898-8_15
Field Informatics
Keywords parameterized complexity; modular width; shrub depth; chromatic number; hamiltonian path
Description It is known that a number of natural graph problems which are FPT parameterized by treewidth become W-hard when parameterized by clique-width. It is therefore desirable to find a different structural graph parameter which is as general as possible, covers dense graphs but does not incur such a heavy algorithmic penalty. The main contribution of this paper is to consider a parameter called modular-width, defined using the well-known notion of modular decompositions. Using a combination of ILP and dynamic programming we manage to design FPT algorithms for Coloring and Partitioning into paths (and hence Hamiltonian path and Hamiltonian cycle), which are W-hard for both clique-width and its recently introduced restriction, shrub-depth. We thus argue that modular-width occupies a sweet spot as a graph parameter, generalizing several simpler notions on dense graphs but still evading the “price of generality” paid by clique-width.
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