Finding Small Multi-Demand Set Covers with Ubiquitous Elements and Large Sets is Fixed-Parameter Tractable

04/20/2021
by   Niclas Boehmer, et al.
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We study a variant of Set Cover where each element of the universe has some demand that determines how many times the element needs to be covered. Moreover, we examine two generalizations of this problem when a set can be included multiple times and when sets have different prices. We prove that all three problems are fixed-parameter tractable with respect to the combined parameter budget, the maximum number of elements missing in one of the sets, and the maximum number of sets in which one of the elements does not occur. Lastly, we point out how our fixed-parameter tractability algorithm can be applied in the context of bribery for the (collective-decision) group identification problem.

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