
How Bad is the Freedom to Flood-It?
Belmonte, Rémy; Khosravian Ghadikolaei, Mehdi; Kiyomi, Masashi; Lampis, Michael; Otachi, Yota (2019), How Bad is the Freedom to Flood-It?, Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications, 23, 2, p. 111-134. 10.7155/jgaa.00486
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2019Journal name
Journal of Graph Algorithms and ApplicationsVolume
23Number
2Publisher
Brown University
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111-134
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Fixed-Flood-It and Free-Flood-It are combinatorial problems on graphs that generalize a very popular puzzle called Flood-It. Both problems consist of recoloring moves whose goal is to produce a monochromatic ("flooded") graph as quickly as possible. Their difference is that in Free-Flood-It the player has the additional freedom of choosing the vertex to play in each move. In this paper, we investigate how this freedom affects the complexity of the problem. It turns out that the freedom is bad in some sense. We show that some cases trivially solvable for Fixed-Flood-It become intractable for Free-Flood-It. We also show that some tractable cases for Fixed-Flood-It are still tractable for Free-Flood-It but need considerably more involved arguments. We finally present some combinatorial properties connecting or separating the two problems. In particular, we show that the length of an optimal solution for Fixed-Flood-It is always at most twice that of Free-Flood-It, and this is tight.Subjects / Keywords
flood-filling game; parameterized complexityRelated items
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