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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2016.35
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-64490
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Fafianie, Stefan ; Hols, Eva-Maria C. ; Kratsch, Stefan ; Quyen, Vuong Anh

Preprocessing Under Uncertainty: Matroid Intersection

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Abstract

We continue the study of preprocessing under uncertainty that was initiated independently by Assadi et al. (FSTTCS 2015) and Fafianie et al. (STACS 2016). Here, we are given an instance of a tractable problem with a large static/known part and a small part that is dynamic/uncertain, and ask if there is an efficient algorithm that computes an instance of size polynomial in the uncertain part of the input, from which we can extract an optimal solution to the original instance for all (usually exponentially many) instantiations of the uncertain part.

In the present work, we focus on the Matroid Intersection problem. Amongst others we present a positive preprocessing result for the important case of finding a largest common independent set in two linear matroids. Motivated by an application for intersecting two gammoids we also revisit Maximum Flow. There we tighten a lower bound of Assadi et al. and give an alternative positive result for the case of low uncertain capacity that yields a Maximum Flow instance as output rather than a matrix.

BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{fafianie_et_al:LIPIcs:2016:6449,
  author =	{Stefan Fafianie and Eva-Maria C. Hols and Stefan Kratsch and Vuong Anh Quyen},
  title =	{{Preprocessing Under Uncertainty: Matroid Intersection}},
  booktitle =	{41st International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2016)},
  pages =	{35:1--35:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-016-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2016},
  volume =	{58},
  editor =	{Piotr Faliszewski and Anca Muscholl and Rolf Niedermeier},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2016/6449},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-64490},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2016.35},
  annote =	{Keywords: preprocessing, uncertainty, maximum flow, matroid intersection}
}

Keywords: preprocessing, uncertainty, maximum flow, matroid intersection
Collection: 41st International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2016)
Issue Date: 2016
Date of publication: 19.08.2016

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