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Minimum Eccentricity Shortest Paths in Some Structured Graph Classes

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We investigate the Minimum Eccentricity Shortest Path problem in some structured graph classes. It asks for a given graph to find a shortest path with minimum eccentricity. Although it is NP-hard in general graphs, we demonstrate that a minimum eccentricity shortest path can be found in linear time for distance-hereditary graphs (generalizing the previous result for trees) and in \(\mathcal {O}(n^3m)\) time for chordal graphs.

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This work was partially supported by the NIH grant R01 GM103309.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA

    Feodor F. Dragan & Arne Leitert

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Dragan, F.F., Leitert, A. (2016). Minimum Eccentricity Shortest Paths in Some Structured Graph Classes. In: Mayr, E. (eds) Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science. WG 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9224. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53174-7_14

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