Fast FPT-Algorithms for cleaning grids

  • Authors:
  • Josep Díaz;Dimitrios M. Thilikos

  • Affiliations:
  • Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain;Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

  • Venue:
  • STACS'06 Proceedings of the 23rd Annual conference on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We consider the problem that, given a graph G and a parameter k, asks whether the edit distance of G and a rectangular grid is at most k. We examine the general case where the edit operations are vertex/edge removals and additions. If the dimensions of the grid are given in advance, we give a parameterized algorithm that runs in 2O(logk· k)+O(n3) steps. In the case where the dimensions of the grid are not given we give a parameterized algorithm that runs in 2O(logk·k)+O(k2·n3) steps. We insist on parameterized algorithms with running times where the relation between the polynomial and the non-polynomial part is additive. Our algorithm is based on the technique of kernelization. In particular we prove that for each version of the above problem there exists a kernel of size O(k4).