Efficient Data Reduction for DOMINATING SET: A Linear Problem Kernel for the Planar Case

  • Authors:
  • Jochen Alber;Michael R. Fellows;Rolf Niedermeier

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • SWAT '02 Proceedings of the 8th Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Dealing with the NP-complete Dominating Set problem on undirected graphs, we demonstrate the power of data reduction by preprocessing from a theoretical as well as a practical side. In particular, we prove that Dominating Set on planar graphs has a so-called problem kernel of linear size, achieved by two simple and easy to implement reduction rules. This answers an open question from previous work on the parameterized complexity of Dominating Set on planar graphs.