TY - GEN
T1 - Effective and efficient data reduction for the subset interconnection design problem
AU - Chen, Jiehua
AU - Komusiewicz, Christian
AU - Niedermeier, Rolf
AU - Sorge, Manuel
AU - Suchý, Ondřej
AU - Weller, Mathias
N1 - Funding Information:
JC was supported by Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, MS and MW were supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (projects NI 369/12 and NI 369/9), and part of the work of OS and MW was done while they were affiliated with TU Berlin.
PY - 2013/12/1
Y1 - 2013/12/1
N2 - The NP-hard Subset Interconnection Design problem is motivated by applications in designing vacuum systems and scalable overlay networks. It has as input a set V and a collection of subsets V1, V2,..., Vm , and asks for a minimum-cardinality edge set E such that for the graph G = (V,E) all induced subgraphs G[V1], G[V2],..., G[Vm ] are connected. It has also been studied under the name Minimum Topic-Connected Overlay. We study Subset Interconnection Design in the context of polynomial-time data reduction rules that preserve optimality. Our contribution is threefold: First, we point out flaws in earlier polynomial-time data reduction rules. Second, we provide a fixed-parameter tractability result for small subset sizes and tree-like output graphs. Third, we show linear-time solvability in case of a constant number m of subsets, implying fixed-parameter tractability for the parameter m. To achieve our results, we elaborate on polynomial-time data reduction rules (partly "repairing" previous flawed ones) which also may be of practical use in solving Subset Interconnection Design.
AB - The NP-hard Subset Interconnection Design problem is motivated by applications in designing vacuum systems and scalable overlay networks. It has as input a set V and a collection of subsets V1, V2,..., Vm , and asks for a minimum-cardinality edge set E such that for the graph G = (V,E) all induced subgraphs G[V1], G[V2],..., G[Vm ] are connected. It has also been studied under the name Minimum Topic-Connected Overlay. We study Subset Interconnection Design in the context of polynomial-time data reduction rules that preserve optimality. Our contribution is threefold: First, we point out flaws in earlier polynomial-time data reduction rules. Second, we provide a fixed-parameter tractability result for small subset sizes and tree-like output graphs. Third, we show linear-time solvability in case of a constant number m of subsets, implying fixed-parameter tractability for the parameter m. To achieve our results, we elaborate on polynomial-time data reduction rules (partly "repairing" previous flawed ones) which also may be of practical use in solving Subset Interconnection Design.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-45030-3_34
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-45030-3_34
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84893364071
SN - 9783642450297
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 361
EP - 371
BT - Algorithms and Computation - 24th International Symposium, ISAAC 2013, Proceedings
T2 - 24th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation, ISAAC 2013
Y2 - 16 December 2013 through 18 December 2013
ER -