AMINI , Omid

In this paper, we prove a variant of the Burger-Brooks transfer principle which, combined with recent eigenvalue bounds for surfaces, allows to obtain upper bounds on the eigenvalues of graphs as a function of their genus. More precisely, we show the existence of a universal constants C such that the k-th eigenvalue λ_k of the normalized...

Non-deterministic graph searching was introduced by Fomin et al. to provide a unified approach for pathwidth, treewidth, and their interpretations in terms of graph searching games. Given q>=0, the q-limited search number, s_q(G), of a graph G is the smallest number of searchers required to capture an invisible fugitive in G, when the searchers...

The packet routing problem plays an essential role in communication networks. It involves how to transfer data from some origins to some destinations within a reasonable amount of time. In the $(\ell,k)$-routing problem, each node can send at most $\ell$ packets and receive at most $k$ packets. Permutation routing is the particular case...

Traffic grooming is a central problem in optical networks. It refers to pack low rate signals into higher speed streams, in order to improve bandwidth utilization and reduce network cost. In WDM networks, the most accepted criterion is to minimize the number of electronic terminations, namely the number of SONET Add-Drop Multiplexers (ADMs). In...

Fomin and Thilikos in [5] conjectured that there is a constant $c$ such that, for every $2$-connected planar graph $G$, {pw}(G^*) \leq 2\text{pw}(G)+c$ (the same question was asked simutaneously by Coudert, Huc and Sereni in [4]). By the results of Boedlander and Fomin [2] this holds for every outerplanar graph and actually is tight by Coudert,...

Non-deterministic graph searching was introduced by Fomin et al. to provide a unified approach for pathwidth, treewidth, and their interpretations in terms of graph searching games. Given q>=0, the q-limited search number, s_q(G), of a graph G is the smallest number of searchers required to capture an invisible fugitive in G, when the searchers...

In this paper we initiate the study of finding an induced subgraph of size at most $k$ with minimum degree at least $d$. We call this problem {\sc Minimum Subgraph of Minimum Degree $_{\geq d}$ (MSMD$_d$)}. For $d=2$, it corresponds to finding a shortest cycle of the graph. The problem is strongly related to the \textsc{Dense $k$-Subgraph}...

Non-deterministic graph searching was introduced by Fomin et al. to provide a unified approach for pathwidth, treewidth, and their interpretations in terms of graph searching games. Given q ≥ 0, the q-limited search number, s q (G), of a graph G is the smallest number of searchers required to capture an invisible fugitive in G, when the...

Le groupage est un problème central dans l'étude des réseaux optiques. Dans cet article, on propose le premier résultat d'inapproximabilité pour le problème du groupage, en affirmant la conjecture de Chow et Lin (2004, Networks, 44, 194-202), selon laquelle le groupage est APX-complet. On étudie aussi une version amortie du problème de...

A digraph is {\it $m$-labelled} if every arcs is labelled by an integer in $\{1, \dots ,m\}$. Motivated by wavelength assignment for multicasts in optical star networks, we study {\it $n$-fiber colourings} of labelled digraph which are colourings of the arcs of $D$ such that at each vertex $v$, for each colour in $\lambda$,...

In this paper we study a combinatorial optimization problem issued from on-board networks in satellites. In this kind of networks the entering signals (inputs) should be routed to amplifiers (outputs). The connections are made via expensive switches with four links available. The paths connecting inputs to outputs should be link-disjoint. More...

A $k$-frugal colouring of a graph~$G$ is a proper colouring of the vertices of~$G$ such that no colour appears more than~$k$ times in the neighbourhood of a vertex. This type of colouring was introduced by Hind, Molloy and Reed in 1997. In this paper, we study the frugal chromatic number of planar graphs, planar graphs with large girth, and...

Adapting the method introduced in Graph Minors X, we propose a new proof of the duality between the bramble number of a graph and its tree-width. Our approach is based on a new definition of submodularity on partition functions which naturally extends the usual one on set functions. The proof does not rely on Menger's theorem, and thus...

A digraph is {\it $m$-labelled} if every arcs is labelled by an integer in $\{1, \dots ,m\}$. Motivated by wavelength assignment for multicasts in optical star networks, we study {\it $n$-fiber colourings} of labelled digraph which are colourings of the arcs of $D$ such that at each vertex $v$, for each colour $\lambda$,...

Un reseau $\plk$ est un graphe non oriente avec $p + \lambda$ entrees, $p + k$ sorties et des noeuds internes de degre $4$. Un reseau $\plk$ est valide si pour n'importe quel choix de $p$ entrees et de $p$ sorties il existe $p$ chemins aretes disjoints reliant les entrees aux sorties. Dans le cas particulier $\lambda = 0$, un reseau $\plk$ est...

A general instance of a Degree-Constrained Subgraph problem consists of an edge-weighted or vertex-weighted graph G and the objective is to find an optimal weighted subgraph, subject to certain degree constraints on the vertices of the subgraph. This paper considers three natural Degree-Constrained Subgraph problems and studies their behavior...

Art gallery problems have been extensively studied over the last decade and have found different type of applications. Normally the number of sides of a polygon or the general shape of the polygon is used as a measure of the complexity of the problem. In this paper we explore another measure of complexity, namely, the number of guards required...

This paper deals with the design of on board networks in satellites (also called Traveling wave tube Amplifiers (TWTA)). These networks should connect signals arriving on some ports of the satellite to amplifiers, even in case of failures of some amplifiers. They are made of links and expensive switches each with 4 links. So, the aim is to...

In this article we provide hardness results and approximation algorithms for the following three natural degree-constrained subgraph problems, which take as input an undirected graph G=(V,E). Let d>=2 be a fixed integer. The Maximumd-degree-bounded Connected Subgraph (MDBCS"d) problem takes as additional input a weight function @w:E->R^+, and...