The Proper interval colored graph problem for caterpillar trees

This paper studies the computational complexity of the Proper Interval Colored Graph problem (PICG), when the input graph is a colored tree. We show that the problem is hard for the class of caterpillar trees. To prove our result we make use of a close relationship between intervalizing problems and...

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Autores: Álvarez Faura, M. del Carme|||0000-0003-2352-0546, Serna Iglesias, María José|||0000-0001-9729-8648
Tipo de recurso: informe técnico
Fecha de publicación:1999
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/93011
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/93011
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:PICG
PCLP
Proper interval colored graph problem
Proper colored layout problem
Computational complexity
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Sumario:This paper studies the computational complexity of the Proper Interval Colored Graph problem (PICG), when the input graph is a colored tree. We show that the problem is hard for the class of caterpillar trees. To prove our result we make use of a close relationship between intervalizing problems and graph layout problems. We define a graph layout problem the Proper Colored Layout Problem (PCLP). Although PCLP is not equivalent to PICG, by transforming the input graph we will stablish a close relationship between both problems. The main result is that the PICG is NP-complete for colored caterpillars of hair length 2 and in P for caterpillars of hair length 1 or 0.