Efficient algorithms for counting parameterized list H-colorings

  • Authors:
  • Josep Díaz;Maria Serna;Dimitrios M. Thilikos

  • Affiliations:
  • ALBCOM Research Group, Dept. Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Campus Nord, Edifici Ω, Jordi Girona Salgado 1-3, 08034 Barcelona, Spain;ALBCOM Research Group, Dept. Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Campus Nord, Edifici Ω, Jordi Girona Salgado 1-3, 08034 Barcelona, Spain;Department of Mathematics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimioupolis, GR157 84 Athens, Greece

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computer and System Sciences
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We study the fixed parameter tractability of the counting version of a parameterization of the restrictive list H-coloring problem. The parameterization is defined by fixing the number of preimages of a subset C of the vertices in H through a weight assignment K on C. We show the fixed parameter tractability of counting the number of list (H,C,K)-colorings, for the case in which (H,C,K) is simple. We introduce the concept of compactor and a new algorithmic technique, compactor enumeration, that allow us to design fixed parameter algorithms for parameterized counting problems.