In the Imbalance Minimization problem we are given a graph G=(V,E) and an integer b and asked whether there is an ordering v 1 ...v n of V such that the sum of the imbalance of all the vertices is at most b. The imbalance of a vertex v i is the absolute value of the difference between the number of neighbors to the left and right of v i . The problem is also known as the Balanced Vertex Ordering problem and it finds many applications in graph drawing. We show that this problem is fixed parameter tractable and provide an algorithm that runs in time 2 O(b logb) •n O(1). This resolves an open problem of Kára et al. [COCOON 2005]. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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Lokshtanov, D., Misra, N., & Saurabh, S. (2010). Imbalance is fixed parameter tractable. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 6196 LNCS, pp. 199–208). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14031-0_23
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