• 1.5-Approximation for treewidth of graphs excluding a graph with one crossing as a minor 

      Demaine, Erik D.; Hajiaghayi, Mohammad Taghi; Thilikos Touloupas, Dimitrios (2002-05)
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      We give polynomial-time constant-factor approximation algorithms for the treewidth and branchwidth of any H-minor-free graph for a given graph H with crossing number at most 1. The approximation factors are 1.5 for ...
    • Bidimensional parameters and local treewidth 

      Demaine, Erik D.; Fomin, Fedor V.; Hajiaghayi, Mohammad Taghi; Thilikos Touloupas, Dimitrios (2003-10)
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      For several graph theoretic parameters such as vertex cover and dominating set, it is known that if their values are bounded by k then the treewidth of the graph is bounded by some function of k. This fact is used as the ...
    • Exponential speedup of fixed parameter algorithms on K_{3,3}-minor-free or K_{5}-minor-free graphs 

      Hajiaghayi, Mohammad Taghi; Demaine, Erik D.; Thilikos Touloupas, Dimitrios (2002-03)
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      We present a fixed parameter algorithm that constructively solves the k-dominating set problem on graphs excluding one of the K_{5} or K_3,3 as a minor in time O(3^{6sqrt{34 k}}n^{O(1)}). In fact, we present our ...
    • Fixed-parameter algorithms for the (k,r)-center in planar graphs and map graphs 

      Demaine, Erik D.; Fomin, Fedor V.; Hajiaghayi, Mohammad Taghi; Thilikos Touloupas, Dimitrios (2003-09)
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      The (k,r)-center problem} asks whether an input graph G has atr most k vertices (called centers) such that every vertex of $ is within distance at most r from some center. In this paper we prove that the (k,r)-center ...
    • Matching points with things 

      Taslakian, Perouz; Seara Ojea, Carlos; Saumell Mendiola, Maria; Langerman, Stefan; Hurtado Díaz, Fernando Alfredo; Aloupis, Greg; Cardinal, Jean; Collette, Sébastien; Demaine, Erik D.; Demaine, Martin L.; Dulieu, Muriel; Fabila Monroy, Ruy; Hart, Vi (Springer Verlag, 2010)
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      Given an ordered set of points and an ordered set of geometric objects in the plane, we are interested in finding a non-crossing matching between point-object pairs. We show that when the objects we match the points to ...
    • Necklaces, convolutions, and X plus Y 

      Bremner, David; Chan, Timothy M.; Demaine, Erik D.; Erickson, Jeff; Hurtado Díaz, Fernando Alfredo; Iacono, John; Langerman, Stefan; Patrascu, Mihai; Taslakian, Perouz (2014-06-01)
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      We give subquadratic algorithms that, given two necklaces each with n beads at arbitrary positions, compute the optimal rotation of the necklaces to best align the beads. Here alignment is measured according to the ℓ p ...
    • Realistic reconfiguration of crystalline (and telecube) robots 

      Wuhrer, Stefanie; Sacristán Adinolfi, Vera; Ramaswami, Suneeta; Pinciu, Val; Aloupis, Greg; Collette, Sébastien; Damian, Mirela; Demaine, Erik D.; El-Khechen, Dania; Flatland, Robin; Langerman, Stefan; O'Rourke, Joseph (CIMAT, 2008)
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      In this paper we propose novel algorithms for reconfiguring modular robots that are composed of n atoms. Each atom has the shape of a unit cube and can expand/contract each face by half a unit, as well as attach to or ...
    • Reconfiguration of cube-style modular robots using O(logn) parallel moves 

      Aloupis, Greg; Collette, Sébastien; Demaine, Erik D.; Langerman, Stefan; Sacristán Adinolfi, Vera; Wuhrer, Stefanie (Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNCS 5369, Springer-Verlag, 2008)
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      We consider a model of reconfigurable robot, introduced and prototyped by the robotics community. The robot consists of independently manipulable unit-square atoms that can extend/contract arms on each side and attach/detach ...