# On Complexity of Flooding Games on Graphs with Interval Representations

@inproceedings{Fukui2012OnCO,
title={On Complexity of Flooding Games on Graphs with Interval Representations},
author={Hiroyuki Fukui and Yota Otachi and Ryuhei Uehara and Takeaki Uno and Yushi Uno},
booktitle={TJJCCGG},
year={2012}
}
• Published in TJJCCGG 27 June 2012
• Computer Science
The flooding games, which are called Flood-It, Mad Virus, or HoneyBee, are a kind of coloring games and they have been becoming popular online. In these games, each player colors one specified cell in his/her turn, and all connected neighbor cells of the same color are also colored by the color. This flooding or coloring spreads on the same color cells. It is natural to consider the coloring games on general graphs: Once a vertex is colored, the flooding flows along edges in the graph. Recently…
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