Gutin, G. and Razgon, Igor and Kim, E.J. (2008) Minimum leaf out-branching problems. In: Fleischer, R. and Xu, J. (eds.) Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5034. Berlin, Germany: Springer Verlag, pp. 235-246. ISBN 9783540688808.
Abstract
Given a digraph D, the Minimum Leaf Out-Branching problem (MinLOB) is the problem of finding in D an out-branching with the minimum possible number of leaves, i.e., vertices of out-degree 0. We prove that MinLOB is polynomial-time solvable for acyclic digraphs. In general, MinLOB is NP-hard and we consider three parameterizations of MinLOB. We prove that two of them are NP-complete for every value of the parameter, but the third one is fixed-parameter tractable (FPT). The FPT parametrization is as follows: given a digraph D of order n and a positive integral parameter k, check whether D contains an out-branching with at most n − k leaves (and find such an out-branching if it exists). We find a problem kernel of order O(k·2 k ) and construct an algorithm of running time O(2 O(klogk) + n 3), which is an ‘additive’ FPT algorithm.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Sarah Hall |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Aug 2013 15:59 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Aug 2023 12:34 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/7928 |
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