Hitting and covering partially

Akanksha Agrawal, Pratibha Choudhary, Pallavi Jain, Lawqueen Kanesh, Vibha Sahlot, Saket Saurabh

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Abstract

d-Hitting Set and d-Set Cover are among the classical NP-hard problems. In this paper, we study variants of d-Hitting Set and d-Set Cover, which are called Partial d -Hitting Set (Partial d -HS) and Partial d -Exact Set Cover (Partial d -Exact SC), respectively. In Partial d -HS, given a universe U, a family F, of sets of size at most d over U, and integers k and t, the objective is to decide if there exists a (Formula Presented) of size at most k such that S intersects with at least t sets in F. We obtain a kernel for Partial d -HS in which the size of the universe is bounded by O(dt) and the size of the family is bounded by O(dt2). Using this result, we obtain a kernel for Partial Vertex Cover (PVC) with O(t) vertices, where t is the number of edges to be covered. Next, we study the Partial d -Exact SC problem, where, given a universe U, a family F, of sets of size exactly d over U, and integers k and t, the objective is to decide if there is (Formula Presented) of size at most k, such that S covers at least t elements in U. We design a kernel for Partial d -Exact SC in which sizes of the universe and the family are bounded by (Formula Presented). Finally, we study a special case of Partial d -HS, when d=2, and design an exact exponential time algorithm with running time (Formula Presented).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputing and Combinatorics - 24th International Conference, COCOON 2018, Proceedings
EditorsDaming Zhu, Lusheng Wang
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages751-763
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)9783319947754
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event24th International Conference on Computing and Combinatorics Conference, COCOON 2018 - Qing Dao, China
Duration: 2 Jul 20184 Jul 2018

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10976 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference24th International Conference on Computing and Combinatorics Conference, COCOON 2018
Country/TerritoryChina
CityQing Dao
Period2/07/184/07/18

Keywords

  • Exact algorithm
  • Kernel
  • Partial Vertex Cover
  • Partial d-Hitting Set
  • Partial d-Set Cover
  • k-Maximum Coverage

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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