Parameterized Resiliency Problems

Jason Crampton, Gregory Gutin, Martin Koutecky, Remi Watrigant

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Abstract

We introduce an extension of decision problems called \textit{resiliency problems}. In a resiliency problem, the goal is to decide whether an instance remains positive after any (appropriately defined) perturbation has been applied to it. To tackle these kinds of problems, some of which might be of practical interest, we introduce a notion of resiliency for Integer Linear Programs (ILP) and show how to use a result of Eisenbrand and Shmonin (Math. Oper. Res., 2008) on Parametric Linear Programming to prove that \textsc{ILP Resiliency} is fixed-parameter tractable (FPT) under a certain parameterization.

To demonstrate the utility of our result, we consider natural resiliency variants of several concrete problems, and prove that they are FPT under natural parameterizations. Our first results concern a four-variate problem which generalizes the {\sc Disjoint Set Cover} problem and which is of interest in access control. We obtain a complete parameterized complexity classification for every possible combination of the parameters. Then, we introduce and study a resiliency variant of the {\sc Closest String} problem, for which we extend an FPT result of Gramm et al. (Algorithmica, 2003). We also consider problems in the fields of scheduling and social choice. We believe that many other problems can be tackled by our framework.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1-14
Number of pages14
JournalTheoretical Computer Science
Early online date7 Aug 2019
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Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 7 Aug 2019

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