Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
6871132 Discrete Applied Mathematics 2018 11 Pages PDF
Abstract
In recent works, authors added conflicts to classical discrete optimization problems. In this paper, a conflict is a pair of vertices that cannot be both in a solution. Set of conflicts can be viewed as edges of a so called conflict graph. An instance is then a support graph and a conflict graph. With these new constraints, the existence of a solution (dominating set or independent dominating set) with no conflicts is no more guaranteed. We explore this subject and we prove that it is NP-complete to decide the existence of a solution even in very restricted classes of graphs and conflicts (sparse or dense). We also propose polynomial algorithms for some sub-cases, using deterministic finite automata.
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