Theoretical Computer Science
The complexity of searching a graph
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Recontamination does not help to search a graph
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Graph searching and a min-max theorem for tree-width
Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B
A Linear-Time Algorithm for Finding Tree-Decompositions of Small Treewidth
SIAM Journal on Computing
On the domination search number
Discrete Applied Mathematics
Robbers, marshals, and guards: game theoretic and logical characterizations of hypertree width
Journal of Computer and System Sciences - Special issu on PODS 2001
Graph minors. XVI. excluding a non-planar graph
Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B
Algorithmic Graph Minor Theory: Decomposition, Approximation, and Coloring
FOCS '05 Proceedings of the 46th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
LICS '07 Proceedings of the 22nd Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science
Hypertree width and related hypergraph invariants
European Journal of Combinatorics
An annotated bibliography on guaranteed graph searching
Theoretical Computer Science
Improved Approximation Algorithms for Minimum Weight Vertex Separators
SIAM Journal on Computing
Generalized hypertree decompositions: NP-hardness and tractable variants
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science
Domination search on graphs with low dominating-target-number
WG'05 Proceedings of the 31st international conference on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science
Contraction obstructions for treewidth
Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B
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The r-domination search game on graphs is a game-theoretical approach to the investigation of several graph and hypergraph parameters including treewidth and hypertree width. The task is to identify the minimum number of cops sufficient to catch the visible and fast robber. In r-domination search, the robber is being arrested if he resides inside a ball of radius r around some cop. In this setting, the power of the cops does not depend only on how many they are but also on the local topology of the graph around them. This is the main reason why the approximation complexity of the r-domination search game varies considerably, depending on whether r = 0 or r ≥ 1. We prove that this discrepancy is canceled when the game is played in (non-trivial) graph classes that are closed under taking of minors. We give a constant factor approximation algorithm that for every fixed r and graph H, computes the minimum number of cops required to capture the robber in the r-domination game on graphs excluding H as a minor.