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Publications and Awards

  • Reallocation problems with minimum completion time

    Toshimasa Ishii, Jun Kawahara, Kazuhisa Makino, Hirotaka Ono
    Proc. of 28th International Computing and Combinatorics Conference (COCOON 2022), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 13595, pp. 292-304, 2022
    • Approximability of the distance independent set problem on regular graphs and planar graphs

      Hiroshi Eto, Takehiro Ito, Zhilong Liu, Eiji Miyano
      IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences, Vol. E105-A, pp. 1211-1222, 2022
      • Extended MSO model checking via small vertex integrity

        Tatsuya Gima, Yota Otachi
        Proc. of 33rd International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2022), Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, Vol. 248, pp. 20:1-20:15, 2022
        • On reachable assignments under dichotomous preferences

          Takehiro Ito, Naonori Kakimura, Naoyuki Kamiyama, Yusuke Kobayashi, Yuta Nozaki, Yoshio Okamoto, Kenta Ozeki
          Proc. of 24th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2022), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 13753, pp. 650-658, 2022
          • On robustness against evacuees' unexpected movement in automatic evacuation guiding

            Jun Kawahara, Takanori Hara, Masahiro Sasabe
            Computers and Electrical Engineering, Vol. 105, Article 108531, 2022
            • Special case of Rota's basis conjecture on graphic matroids

              Shun-ichi Maezawa, Akiko Yazawa
              The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, Vol. 29, Article P3.63, 2022
              • Characterization of (m,n)-linked planar graphs

                Kengo Enami, Shun-ichi Maezawa
                Graphs and Combinatorics, Vol. 38, pp. 131, 2022
                • A satisfiability algorithm for deterministic width-2 branching programs

                  Tomu Makita, Atsuki Nagao, Tatsuki Okada, Kazuhisa Seto, Junichi Teruyama
                  IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences, Vol. E105-A, pp. 1298-1308, 2022
                  • Algorithms for coloring reconfiguration under recolorability digraphs

                    Soichiro Fujii, Yuni Iwamasa, Kei Kimura, Akira Suzuki
                    Proc. of 33rd International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2022), Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, Vol. 248, pp. 4:1–4:19, 2022
                    • An even 2-factor in the line graph of a cubic graph

                      SeungJae Eom, Kenta Ozeki
                      Theory and Applications of Graphs, Vol. 9, Article 7, 2022
                      • Sorting balls and water: Equivalence and computational complexity

                        Takehiro Ito, Jun Kawahara, Shin-ichi Minato, Yota Otachi, Toshiki Saitoh, Akira Suzuki, Ryuhei Uehara, Takeaki Uno, Katsuhisa Yamanaka, Ryo Yoshinaka
                        Proc. of 11th International Conference on Fun with Algorithms (FUN 2022), Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, Vol. 226, pp. 16:1-16:17, 2022
                        • Reconfiguring k-path vertex covers

                          Duc A. Hoang, Akira Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Yagita
                          IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol. E105-D, pp. 1258-1272, 2022
                          • Weight balancing on boundaries

                            Luis Barba, Otfried Cheong, Michael Gene Dobbins, Rudolf Fleischer, Akitoshi Kawamura, Matias Korman, Yoshio Okamoto, János Pach, Yuan Tang, Takeshi Tokuyama, Sander Verdonschot
                            Journal of Computational Geometry, Vol. 13, Article 44573, 2022
                            • A parameterized view to the robust recoverable base problem of matroids under structural uncertainty

                              Takehiro Ito, Naonori Kakimura, Naoyuki Kamiyama, Yusuke Kobayashi, Yoshio Okamoto
                              Operations Research Letters, Vol. 50, pp. 370-375, 2022
                              • An improved deterministic parameterized algorithm for cactus vertex deletion

                                Yuuki Aoike, Tatsuya Gima, Tesshu Hanaka, Masashi Kiyomi, Yasuaki Kobayashi, Yusuke Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Kurita, Yota Otachi
                                Theory of Computing Systems, Vol. 66, pp. 502-515, 2022
                                • Parameterized complexity of non-separating and non-disconnecting paths and sets

                                  Ankit Abhinav, Susobhan Bandopadhyay, Aritra Banik, Yasuaki Kobayashi, Shunsuke Nagano, Yota Otachi, Saket Saurabh
                                  Proc. of 47th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2022), Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, Vol. 241, pp. 6:1-6:15, 2022
                                  • Algorithmic meta-theorems for combinatorial reconfiguration revisited

                                    Tatsuya Gima, Takehiro Ito, Yasuaki Kobayashi, Yota Otachi
                                    Proc. of 30th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2022), Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, Vol. 244, pp. 61:1-61:15, 2022
                                    • Polynomial-delay and polynomial-space enumeration of large maximal matchings

                                      Yasuaki Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Kurita, Kunihiro Wasa
                                      Proc. of 48th edition of the International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science (WG2022), Vol. 13453, pp. 342-355, 2022
                                      • Linear-delay enumeration for minimal Steiner problems

                                        Yasuaki Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Kurita, Kunihiro Wasa
                                        Proc. of 41st ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGAI Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS 2022), pp. 301-313, 2022
                                        • Constant amortized time enumeration of Eulerian trails

                                          Kazuhiro Kurita, Kuniihiro Wasa
                                          Theoretical Computer Science, Vol. 923, Article 44573, 2022
                                          • Independent set reconfiguration on directed graphs

                                            Takehiro Ito, Yuni Iwamasa, Yasuaki Kobayashi, Yu Nakahata, Yota Otachi, Masahiro Takahashi, Kunihiro Wasa
                                            Proc. of 47th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, Vol. 241, pp. 58:1-58:15, 2022
                                            • Shortest reconfiguration of perfect matchings via alternating cycles

                                              Takehiro Ito, Naonori Kakimura, Naoyuki Kamiyama, Yusuke Kobayashi, Yoshio Okamoto
                                              SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, Vol. 36, pp. 1102-1123, 2022
                                              • Reconstructing phylogenetic trees from multipartite quartet systems

                                                Hiroshi Hirai, Yuni Iwamasa
                                                Algorithmica, Vol. 84, pp. 1875-1896, 2022
                                                • Quantaloidal approach to constraint satisfaction

                                                  Soichiro Fujii, Yuni Iwamasa, Kei Kimura
                                                  Proc. of 4th International Conference on Applied Category Theory (ACT 2021), Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, Vol. 372, pp. 289-305, 2022
                                                  • Parameterized complexity of graph burning

                                                    Yasuaki Kobayashi, Yota Otachi
                                                    Algorithmica, Vol. 84, pp. 2379-2393, 2022
                                                    • Unlabeled multi-robot motion planning with tighter separation bounds

                                                      Bahareh Banyassady, Mark de Berg, Karl Bringmann, Kevin Buchin, Henning Fernau, Dan Halperin, Irina Kostitsyna, Yoshio Okamoto, Stijn Slot
                                                      Proc. of 38th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2022), Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, Vol. 224, pp. 12:1-12:16, 2022
                                                      • On the kernel of the surgery map restricted to the 1-loop part

                                                        Yuta Nozaki, Masatoshi Sato, Masaaki Suzuki
                                                        Journal of Topology, Vol. 15, pp. 587-619, 2022
                                                        • Monotone edge flips to an orientation of maximum edge-connectivity à la Nash-Williams

                                                          Takehiro Ito, Yuni Iwamasa, Naonori Kakimura, Naoyuki Kamiyama, Yusuke Kobayashi, Shun-ichi Maezawa, Yuta Nozaki, Yoshio Okamoto, Kenta Ozeki
                                                          Proc. of Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2022), pp. 1342-1355, 2022
                                                          • Linear-time recognition of double-threshold graphs

                                                            Yusuke Kobayashi, Yoshio Okamoto, Yota Otachi, Yushi Uno
                                                            Algorithmica, Vol. 84, pp. 1163-1181, 2022
                                                            • Reforming an envy-free matching

                                                              Takehiro Ito, Yuni Iwamasa, Naonori Kakimura, Naoyuki Kamiyama, Yusuke Kobayashi, Yuta Nozaki, Yoshio Okamoto, Kenta Ozeki
                                                              Proc. of 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2022), Vol. 36, pp. 5084-5091, 2022
                                                              • Computing diverse shortest paths efficiently: A theoretical and experimental study

                                                                Tesshu Hanaka, Yasuaki Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Kurita, See Woo Lee, Yota Otachi
                                                                Proc. of 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2022), Vol. 36, pp. 3758-3766, 2022
                                                                • Maximum properly colored trees in edge-colored graphs

                                                                  Jie Hu, Hao Li, Shun-ichi Maezawa
                                                                  Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, Vol. 44, pp. 154-171, 2022
                                                                  • Kempe equivalence classes of cubic graphs embedded on the projective plane

                                                                    Kenta Ozeki
                                                                    Combinatorica, Vol. 42, pp. 1451-1480, 2022
                                                                    • A combinatorial algorithm for computing the rank of a generic partitioned matrix with $2 \times 2$ submatrices

                                                                      Hiroshi Hirai, Yuni Iwamasa
                                                                      Mathematical Programming, Series A, Vol. 195, pp. 1-37, 2022
                                                                      • Optimal matroid bases with intersection constraints: Valuated matroids, M-convex functions, and their applications

                                                                        Yuni Iwamasa, Kenjiro Takazawa
                                                                        Mathematical Programming, Series A, Vol. 194, pp. 229-256, 2022
                                                                        • 12th Research Encourage Award, the Operations Research Society of Japan

                                                                          IWAMASA, Yuni (Kyoto U.)
                                                                          Sepetember 14, 2022
                                                                          • XCSP3 Competition 2022, 2nd place of the Main CSP track

                                                                            SOH, Takehide (Kobe U.), LE BERRE, Daniel  (CRIL-CNRS), NABESHIMA, Hidetomo (Yamanashi U.), BANBARA, Mutsunori (Nagoya U.), TAMURA, Naoyuki (Kobe U.)
                                                                            August 3, 2022
                                                                             
                                                                            • Submodular reassignment problem for reallocating agents to tasks with synergy effects

                                                                              Naonori Kakimura, Naoyuki Kamiyama, Yusuke Kobayashi, Yoshio Okamoto
                                                                              Discrete Optimization, Vol. 44, pp. 100631, 2022
                                                                              • The Alon-Tarsi number of K5-minor-free graphs

                                                                                Toshiki Abe, Seog-Jin Kim, Kenta Ozeki
                                                                                Discrete Mathematics, Vol. 345, pp. 112764, 2022
                                                                                • Covering projective planar graphs with three forests

                                                                                  Raiji Mukae, Kenta Ozeki, Terukazu Sano, Ryuji Tazume
                                                                                  Discrete Mathematics, Vol. 345, pp. 112748, 2022
                                                                                  • Parameterized complexity of (A, l)-path packing

                                                                                    Rémy Belmonte, Tesshu Hanaka, Masaaki Kanzaki, Masashi Kiyomi, Yasuaki Kobayashi, Yusuke Kobayashi, Michael Lampis, Hirotaka Ono, Yota Otachi
                                                                                    Algorithmica, Vol. 84, pp. 871-895, 2022
                                                                                    • Approximability of monotone submodular function maximization under cardinality and matroid constraints in the streaming model

                                                                                      Chien-Chung Huang, Naonori Kakimura, Simon Mauras, Yuichi Yoshida
                                                                                      SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, Vol. 36, pp. 355-382, 2022
                                                                                      • A forbidden pair for connected graphs to have spanning k-trees

                                                                                        Shun-ichi Maezawa, Kenta Ozeki
                                                                                        Journal of Graph Theory, Vol. 99, pp. 509-519, 2022
                                                                                        • Reconfiguration of regular induced subgraphs

                                                                                          Hiroshi Eto, Takehiro Ito, Yasuaki Kobayashi, Yota Otachi, Kunihiro Wasa
                                                                                          Proc. of 16th International Conference and Workshops on Algorithms and Computation (WALCOM 2022), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 13174, pp. 35-46, 2022
                                                                                          • Path cover problems with length cost

                                                                                            Kenya Kobayashi, Guohui Lin, Eiji Miyano, Toshiki Saitoh, Akira Suzuki, Tadatoshi Utashima, Tsuyoshi Yagita
                                                                                            Proc. of 16th International Conference and Workshops on Algorithms and Computation (WALCOM 2022), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 13174, pp. 396-408, 2022
                                                                                            • Happy set problem on subclasses of co-comparability graphs

                                                                                              Hiroshi Eto, Takehiro Ito, Eiji Miyano, Akira Suzuki, Yuma Tamura
                                                                                              Proc. of 16th International Conference and Workshops on Algorithms and Computation (WALCOM 2022), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 13174, pp. 149-160, 2022
                                                                                              • Reconfiguration of spanning trees with degree constraint or diameter constraint

                                                                                                Nicolas Bousquet, Takehiro Ito, Yusuke Kobayashi, Haruka Mizuta, Paul Ouvrard, Akira Suzuki, Kunihiro Wasa
                                                                                                Proc. of 39th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2022), Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, Vol. 219, pp. 15:1-15:21, 2022
                                                                                                • An O(n^2)-time algorithm for computing a max-min 3-dispersion on a point set in convex position

                                                                                                  Yasuaki Kobayashi, Shin-Ichi Nakano, Kei Uchizawa, Takeaki Uno, Yutaro Yamaguchi, Katsuhisa Yamanaka
                                                                                                  IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol. E105-D, pp. 503-507, 2022
                                                                                                  • Multi-pass streaming algorithms for monotone submodular function maximization

                                                                                                    Chien-Chung Huang, Naonori Kakimura
                                                                                                    Theory of Computing Systems, Vol. 66, pp. 354-394, 2022
                                                                                                    • 18th Young Scientists' Presentation Award, the Japan Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

                                                                                                      IWAMASA, Yuni (Kyoto U.)
                                                                                                      ”A combinatorial algorithm for computing the degree of the determinant of a generic partitioned polynomial matrix with 2×2 submatrices”
                                                                                                      June 17, 2022
                                                                                                      • 20th LA/EATCS-Japan Presentation Award

                                                                                                        KAWAHARA, Jun (Kyoto U.)
                                                                                                        "On an efficient solver for combinatorial reconfiguration problems using ZDDs"
                                                                                                        Authors: ITO, Takehiro (Tohoku U.), KAWAHARA, Jun (Kyoto U.), SOH, Takehide (Kobe U.), SUZUKI, Akira (Tohoku U.), TERUYAMA, Junichi (U. Hyogo), TODA, Takahisa (U. Electro-Communications)
                                                                                                        February 3, 2022