Solving some NP-complete problems using split decomposition

  • Authors:
  • Michaël Rao

  • Affiliations:
  • CNRS - LIRMM, Université Montpellier II, 161 rue Ada, 34392 Montpellier Cedex 5, France

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2008

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.04

Visualization

Abstract

We show how to use the split decomposition to solve some NP-hard optimization problems on graphs. We give algorithms for clique problem and domination-type problems. Our main result is an algorithm to compute a coloration of a graph using its split decomposition. Finally we show that the clique-width of a graph is bounded if and only if the clique-width of each representative graph in its split decomposition is bounded.