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Assessing the computational complexity of multilayer subgraph detection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2019

Robert Bredereck ,
Christian Komusiewicz ,
Stefan Kratsch ,
Hendrik Molter ,
Rolf Niedermeier  and
Manuel Sorge
Robert Bredereck
Affiliation:
Institut für Softwaretechnik und Theoretische Informatik, TU Berlin, Germany (e-mail: robert.bredereck@tu-berlin.de)
Christian Komusiewicz
Affiliation:
Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany (e-mail: komusiewicz@informatik.uni-marburg.de)
Stefan Kratsch
Affiliation:
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany (e-mail: kratsch@informatik.hu-berlin.de)
Hendrik Molter*
Affiliation:
Institut für Softwaretechnik und Theoretische Informatik, TU Berlin, Germany (e-mails: h.molter@tu-berlin.de, rolf.niedermeier@tu-berlin.de)
Rolf Niedermeier
Affiliation:
Institut für Softwaretechnik und Theoretische Informatik, TU Berlin, Germany (e-mails: h.molter@tu-berlin.de, rolf.niedermeier@tu-berlin.de)
Manuel Sorge
Affiliation:
Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw, Poland (e-mail: manuel.sorge@mimuw.edu.pl)
*
*Corresponding author. Email: h.molter@tu-berlin.de
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Abstract

Multilayer graphs consist of several graphs, called layers, where the vertex set of all layers is the same but each layer has an individual edge set. They are motivated by real-world problems where entities (vertices) are associated via multiple types of relationships (edges in different layers). We chart the border of computational (in)tractability for the class of subgraph detection problems on multilayer graphs, including fundamental problems such as maximum-cardinality matching, finding certain clique relaxations, or path problems. Mostly encountering hardness results, sometimes even for two or three layers, we can also spot some islands of computational tractability.

Keywords

parameterized computational complexityexact algorithmsmulti-modal datamatchingHamiltonian pathcommunity detection
Type
Original Article
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Network Science , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , June 2019 , pp. 215 - 241
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© Cambridge University Press 2019 

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Footnotes

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An extended abstract (Bredereck et al., 2017) appeared in the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Algorithms and Complexity (CIAC 2017), held in Athens, Greece, May 24–26, 2017. This long version now contains a reorganization and much broader motivation and interpretation of the results, as well as full proofs of all results. Work started while all authors were with TU Berlin.

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