On the fixed-parameter enumerability of cluster editing

  • Authors:
  • Peter Damaschke

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University, Göteborg, Sweden

  • Venue:
  • WG'05 Proceedings of the 31st international conference on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Cluster Editing is the problem of changing a graph G by at most k edge insertions or deletions into a disjoint union of cliques. The problem is motivated from computational biology and known to be FPT. We study the enumeration of all solutions with a minimal set of edge changes. Enumerations can support efficient decisions between ambiguous solutions. We prove that all minimal solutions differ only on a so-called a full kernel of at most k2/4+O(k) vertices. This bound is tight. For ambiguous edges we get an optimal bound up to a constant factor. Finally we give an algorithm that outputs a compressed enumeration in O*(2.4k) time.