Connected coloring completion for general graphs: algorithms and complexity

Chor, B. and Fellows, M.R. and Ragan, M.A. and Razgon, Igor and Rosamond, F.A. and Snir, S. (2007) Connected coloring completion for general graphs: algorithms and complexity. In: Snir, G. (ed.) COCOON 2007: Computing and Combinatorics. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4598. Springer, pp. 75-85. ISBN 9783540735441.

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73545-8_10

Abstract

An r-component connected coloring of a graph is a coloring of the vertices so that each color class induces a subgraph having at most r connected components. The concept has been well-studied for r = 1, in the case of trees, under the rubric of convex coloring, used in modeling perfect phylogenies. Several applications in bioinformatics of connected coloring problems on general graphs are discussed, including analysis of protein-protein interaction networks and protein structure graphs, and of phylogenetic relationships modeled by splits trees. We investigate the r-Component Connected Coloring Completion (r-CCC) problem, that takes as input a partially colored graph, having k uncolored vertices, and asks whether the partial coloring can be completed to an r-component connected coloring. For r = 1 this problem is shown to be NP-hard, but fixed-parameter tractable when parameterized by the number of uncolored vertices, solvable in time O *(8 k ). We also show that the 1-CCC problem, parameterized (only) by the treewidth t of the graph, is fixed-parameter tractable; we show this by a method that is of independent interest. The r-CCC problem is shown to be W[1]-hard, when parameterized by the treewidth bound t, for any r ≥ 2. Our proof also shows that the problem is NP-complete for r = 2, for general graphs.

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Item Type:	Book Section
School:	Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Depositing User:	Sarah Hall
Date Deposited:	11 Oct 2021 10:45
Last Modified:	09 Aug 2023 12:52
URI:	https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/46236

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