کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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420423 | 683934 | 2009 | 5 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |

Given a digraph DD, the Minimum Leaf Out-Branching problem (MinLOB) is the problem of finding in DD an out-branching with the minimum possible number of leaves, i.e., vertices of out-degree zero. Gutin, Razgon and Kim [G. Gutin, I. Razgon, E.J. Kim, Minimum leaf out-branching problems, in: Proc. 4th International Conference on Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management, AAIM’08, in: Lect. Notes Comput. Sci., vol. 5034 2008, pp. 235–246] proved that MinLOB is polynomial time solvable for acyclic digraphs which are exactly the digraphs of directed path-width (DAG-width, directed tree-width, respectively) 0. We investigate how much one can extend this polynomiality result. We prove that already for digraphs of directed path-width (directed tree-width, DAG-width, respectively) 1, MinLOB is NP-hard. On the other hand, we show that for digraphs of restricted directed tree-width (directed path-width, DAG-width, respectively) and a fixed integer kk, the problem of checking whether there is an out-branching with at most kk leaves is polynomial time solvable.
Journal: Discrete Applied Mathematics - Volume 157, Issue 13, 6 July 2009, Pages 3000–3004