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Defining and Fortifying Against Cognitive Vulnerabilities in Social Engineering (Dagstuhl Seminar 23462)

Authors: Yomna Abdelrahman, Florian Alt, Tilman Dingler, Christopher Hadnagy, Abbie Maroño, and Verena Distler

Published in: Dagstuhl Reports, Volume 13, Issue 11 (2024)

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Social engineering has become the main vector for human-centered cyber attacks, resulting from an unparalleled level of professionalization in the cybercrime industry over the past years. Hereby, through manipulation, criminals seek to make victims take actions that compromise security, such as revealing credentials, issuing payments, or disclosing confidential information. Little effective means for protection exist today against such attacks beyond raising awareness through education. At the same time, the proliferation of sensors in our everyday lives - both in personal devices and in our (smart) environments - provides an unprecedented opportunity for developing solutions assessing the cognitive vulnerabilities of users and serves as a basis for novel means of protection. This report documents the program and the outcomes of the Dagstuhl Seminar 23462 "Defining and Fortifying Against Cognitive Vulnerabilities in Social Engineering". This 3-day seminar brought together experts from academia, industry, and the authorities working on social engineering. During the seminar, participants developed a common understanding of social engineering, identified grand challenges, worked on a research agenda, and identified ideas for collaborations in the form of research projects and joint initiatives.

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Yomna Abdelrahman, Florian Alt, Tilman Dingler, Christopher Hadnagy, Abbie Maroño, and Verena Distler. Defining and Fortifying Against Cognitive Vulnerabilities in Social Engineering (Dagstuhl Seminar 23462). In Dagstuhl Reports, Volume 13, Issue 11, pp. 103-129, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@Article{abdelrahman_et_al:DagRep.13.11.103,
  author =	{Abdelrahman, Yomna and Alt, Florian and Dingler, Tilman and Hadnagy, Christopher and Maro\~{n}o, Abbie and Distler, Verena},
  title =	{{Defining and Fortifying Against Cognitive Vulnerabilities in Social Engineering (Dagstuhl Seminar 23462)}},
  pages =	{103--129},
  journal =	{Dagstuhl Reports},
  ISSN =	{2192-5283},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{13},
  number =	{11},
  editor =	{Abdelrahman, Yomna and Alt, Florian and Dingler, Tilman and Hadnagy, Christopher and Maro\~{n}o, Abbie and Distler, Verena},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagRep.13.11.103},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-198461},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagRep.13.11.103},
  annote =	{Keywords: Social Engineering, Cognitive Vulnerabilities, Phishing, Vishing}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2024.6

Range Entropy Queries and Partitioning

Authors: Sanjay Krishnan and Stavros Sintos

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 290, 27th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2024)

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Data partitioning that maximizes or minimizes Shannon entropy is a crucial subroutine in data compression, columnar storage, and cardinality estimation algorithms. These partition algorithms can be accelerated if we have a data structure to find the entropy in different subsets of data when the algorithm needs to decide what block to construct. While it is generally known how to compute the entropy of a discrete distribution efficiently, we want to efficiently derive the entropy among the data items that lie in a specific area. We solve this problem in a typical setting when we deal with real data, where data items are geometric points and each requested area is a query (hyper)rectangle. More specifically, we consider a set P of n weighted and colored points in ℝ^d. The goal is to construct a low space data structure, such that given a query (hyper)rectangle R, it computes the entropy based on the colors of the points in P∩ R, in sublinear time. We show a conditional lower bound for this problem proving that we cannot hope for data structures with near-linear space and near-constant query time. Then, we propose exact data structures for d = 1 and d > 1 with o(n^{2d}) space and o(n) query time. We also provide a tune parameter t that the user can choose to bound the asymptotic space and query time of the new data structures. Next, we propose near linear space data structures for returning either an additive or a multiplicative approximation of the entropy. Finally, we show how we can use the new data structures to efficiently partition time series and histograms with respect to entropy.

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Sanjay Krishnan and Stavros Sintos. Range Entropy Queries and Partitioning. In 27th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 290, pp. 6:1-6:21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{krishnan_et_al:LIPIcs.ICDT.2024.6,
  author =	{Krishnan, Sanjay and Sintos, Stavros},
  title =	{{Range Entropy Queries and Partitioning}},
  booktitle =	{27th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2024)},
  pages =	{6:1--6:21},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-312-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{290},
  editor =	{Cormode, Graham and Shekelyan, Michael},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2024.6},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-197883},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2024.6},
  annote =	{Keywords: Shannon entropy, range query, data structure, data partitioning}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2024.9

Approximating Single-Source Personalized PageRank with Absolute Error Guarantees

Authors: Zhewei Wei, Ji-Rong Wen, and Mingji Yang

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 290, 27th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2024)

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Personalized PageRank (PPR) is an extensively studied and applied node proximity measure in graphs. For a pair of nodes s and t on a graph G = (V,E), the PPR value π(s,t) is defined as the probability that an α-discounted random walk from s terminates at t, where the walk terminates with probability α at each step. We study the classic Single-Source PPR query, which asks for PPR approximations from a given source node s to all nodes in the graph. Specifically, we aim to provide approximations with absolute error guarantees, ensuring that the resultant PPR estimates π̂(s,t) satisfy max_{t ∈ V} |π̂(s,t)-π(s,t)| ≤ ε for a given error bound ε. We propose an algorithm that achieves this with high probability, with an expected running time of - Õ(√m/ε) for directed graphs, where m = |E|; - Õ(√{d_max}/ε) for undirected graphs, where d_max is the maximum node degree in the graph; - Õ(n^{γ-1/2}/ε) for power-law graphs, where n = |V| and γ ∈ (1/2,1) is the extent of the power law. These sublinear bounds improve upon existing results. We also study the case when degree-normalized absolute error guarantees are desired, requiring max_{t ∈ V} |π̂(s,t)/d(t)-π(s,t)/d(t)| ≤ ε_d for a given error bound ε_d, where the graph is undirected and d(t) is the degree of node t. We give an algorithm that provides this error guarantee with high probability, achieving an expected complexity of Õ(√{∑_{t ∈ V} π(s,t)/d(t)}/ε_d). This improves over the previously known O(1/ε_d) complexity.

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Zhewei Wei, Ji-Rong Wen, and Mingji Yang. Approximating Single-Source Personalized PageRank with Absolute Error Guarantees. In 27th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 290, pp. 9:1-9:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{wei_et_al:LIPIcs.ICDT.2024.9,
  author =	{Wei, Zhewei and Wen, Ji-Rong and Yang, Mingji},
  title =	{{Approximating Single-Source Personalized PageRank with Absolute Error Guarantees}},
  booktitle =	{27th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2024)},
  pages =	{9:1--9:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-312-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{290},
  editor =	{Cormode, Graham and Shekelyan, Michael},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2024.9},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-197911},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2024.9},
  annote =	{Keywords: Graph Algorithms, Sublinear Algorithms, Personalized PageRank}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2024.11

On the Convergence Rate of Linear Datalog ^∘ over Stable Semirings

Authors: Sungjin Im, Benjamin Moseley, Hung Ngo, and Kirk Pruhs

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 290, 27th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2024)

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Datalog^∘ is an extension of Datalog, where instead of a program being a collection of union of conjunctive queries over the standard Boolean semiring, a program may now be a collection of sum-product queries over an arbitrary commutative partially ordered pre-semiring. Datalog^∘ is more powerful than Datalog in that its additional algebraic structure alows for supporting recursion with aggregation. At the same time, Datalog^∘ retains the syntactic and semantic simplicity of Datalog: Datalog^∘ has declarative least fixpoint semantics. The least fixpoint can be found via the naïve evaluation algorithm that repeatedly applies the immediate consequence operator until no further change is possible. It was shown in [Mahmoud Abo Khamis et al., 2022] that, when the underlying semiring is p-stable, then the naïve evaluation of any Datalog^∘ program over the semiring converges in a finite number of steps. However, the upper bounds on the rate of convergence were exponential in the number n of ground IDB atoms. This paper establishes polynomial upper bounds on the convergence rate of the naïve algorithm on linear Datalog^∘ programs, which is quite common in practice. In particular, the main result of this paper is that the convergence rate of linear Datalog^∘ programs under any p-stable semiring is O(pn³). Furthermore, we show a matching lower bound by constructing a p-stable semiring and a linear Datalog^∘ program that requires Ω(pn³) iterations for the naïve iteration algorithm to converge. Next, we study the convergence rate in terms of the number of elements in the semiring for linear Datalog^∘ programs. When L is the number of elements, the convergence rate is bounded by O(pn log L). This significantly improves the convergence rate for small L. We show a nearly matching lower bound as well.

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Sungjin Im, Benjamin Moseley, Hung Ngo, and Kirk Pruhs. On the Convergence Rate of Linear Datalog ^∘ over Stable Semirings. In 27th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 290, pp. 11:1-11:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{im_et_al:LIPIcs.ICDT.2024.11,
  author =	{Im, Sungjin and Moseley, Benjamin and Ngo, Hung and Pruhs, Kirk},
  title =	{{On the Convergence Rate of Linear Datalog ^∘ over Stable Semirings}},
  booktitle =	{27th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2024)},
  pages =	{11:1--11:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-312-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{290},
  editor =	{Cormode, Graham and Shekelyan, Michael},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2024.11},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-197939},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2024.11},
  annote =	{Keywords: Datalog, convergence rate, semiring}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2024.12

Enumeration and Updates for Conjunctive Linear Algebra Queries Through Expressibility

Authors: Thomas Muñoz Serrano, Cristian Riveros, and Stijn Vansummeren

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 290, 27th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2024)

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Due to the importance of linear algebra and matrix operations in data analytics, there is significant interest in using relational query optimization and processing techniques for evaluating (sparse) linear algebra programs. In particular, in recent years close connections have been established between linear algebra programs and relational algebra that allow transferring optimization techniques of the latter to the former. In this paper, we ask ourselves which linear algebra programs in MATLANG correspond to the free-connex and q-hierarchical fragments of conjunctive first-order logic. Both fragments have desirable query processing properties: free-connex conjunctive queries support constant-delay enumeration after a linear-time preprocessing phase, and q-hierarchical conjunctive queries further allow constant-time updates. By characterizing the corresponding fragments of MATLANG, we hence identify the fragments of linear algebra programs that one can evaluate with constant-delay enumeration after linear-time preprocessing and with constant-time updates. To derive our results, we improve and generalize previous correspondences between MATLANG and relational algebra evaluated over semiring-annotated relations. In addition, we identify properties on semirings that allow to generalize the complexity bounds for free-connex and q-hierarchical conjunctive queries from Boolean annotations to general semirings.

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Thomas Muñoz Serrano, Cristian Riveros, and Stijn Vansummeren. Enumeration and Updates for Conjunctive Linear Algebra Queries Through Expressibility. In 27th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 290, pp. 12:1-12:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{munozserrano_et_al:LIPIcs.ICDT.2024.12,
  author =	{Mu\~{n}oz Serrano, Thomas and Riveros, Cristian and Vansummeren, Stijn},
  title =	{{Enumeration and Updates for Conjunctive Linear Algebra Queries Through Expressibility}},
  booktitle =	{27th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2024)},
  pages =	{12:1--12:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-312-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{290},
  editor =	{Cormode, Graham and Shekelyan, Michael},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2024.12},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-197946},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2024.12},
  annote =	{Keywords: Query evaluation, conjunctive queries, linear algebra, enumeration algorithms}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2024.13

Direct Access for Conjunctive Queries with Negations

Authors: Florent Capelli and Oliver Irwin

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 290, 27th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2024)

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Given a conjunctive query Q and a database 𝐃, a direct access to the answers of Q over 𝐃 is the operation of returning, given an index j, the j-th answer for some order on its answers. While this problem is #P-hard in general with respect to combined complexity, many conjunctive queries have an underlying structure that allows for a direct access to their answers for some lexicographical ordering that takes polylogarithmic time in the size of the database after a polynomial time precomputation. Previous work has precisely characterised the tractable classes and given fine-grained lower bounds on the precomputation time needed depending on the structure of the query. In this paper, we generalise these tractability results to the case of signed conjunctive queries, that is, conjunctive queries that may contain negative atoms. Our technique is based on a class of circuits that can represent relational data. We first show that this class supports tractable direct access after a polynomial time preprocessing. We then give bounds on the size of the circuit needed to represent the answer set of signed conjunctive queries depending on their structure. Both results combined together allow us to prove the tractability of direct access for a large class of conjunctive queries. On the one hand, we recover the known tractable classes from the literature in the case of positive conjunctive queries. On the other hand, we generalise and unify known tractability results about negative conjunctive queries - that is, queries having only negated atoms. In particular, we show that the class of β-acyclic negative conjunctive queries and the class of bounded nest set width negative conjunctive queries admit tractable direct access.

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Florent Capelli and Oliver Irwin. Direct Access for Conjunctive Queries with Negations. In 27th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 290, pp. 13:1-13:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{capelli_et_al:LIPIcs.ICDT.2024.13,
  author =	{Capelli, Florent and Irwin, Oliver},
  title =	{{Direct Access for Conjunctive Queries with Negations}},
  booktitle =	{27th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2024)},
  pages =	{13:1--13:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-312-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{290},
  editor =	{Cormode, Graham and Shekelyan, Michael},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2024.13},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-197958},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2024.13},
  annote =	{Keywords: Conjunctive queries, factorized databases, direct access, hypertree decomposition}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2024.15

Conjunctive Queries on Probabilistic Graphs: The Limits of Approximability

Authors: Antoine Amarilli, Timothy van Bremen, and Kuldeep S. Meel

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 290, 27th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2024)

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Query evaluation over probabilistic databases is a notoriously intractable problem - not only in combined complexity, but for many natural queries in data complexity as well [Antoine Amarilli et al., 2017; Nilesh N. Dalvi and Dan Suciu, 2012]. This motivates the study of probabilistic query evaluation through the lens of approximation algorithms, and particularly of combined FPRASes, whose runtime is polynomial in both the query and instance size. In this paper, we focus on tuple-independent probabilistic databases over binary signatures, which can be equivalently viewed as probabilistic graphs. We study in which cases we can devise combined FPRASes for probabilistic query evaluation in this setting. We settle the complexity of this problem for a variety of query and instance classes, by proving both approximability and (conditional) inapproximability results. This allows us to deduce many corollaries of possible independent interest. For example, we show how the results of [Marcelo Arenas et al., 2021] on counting fixed-length strings accepted by an NFA imply the existence of an FPRAS for the two-terminal network reliability problem on directed acyclic graphs: this was an open problem until now [Rico Zenklusen and Marco Laumanns, 2011]. We also show that one cannot extend a recent result [Timothy van Bremen and Kuldeep S. Meel, 2023] that gives a combined FPRAS for self-join-free conjunctive queries of bounded hypertree width on probabilistic databases: neither the bounded-hypertree-width condition nor the self-join-freeness hypothesis can be relaxed. Finally, we complement all our inapproximability results with unconditional lower bounds, showing that DNNF provenance circuits must have at least moderately exponential size in combined complexity.

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Antoine Amarilli, Timothy van Bremen, and Kuldeep S. Meel. Conjunctive Queries on Probabilistic Graphs: The Limits of Approximability. In 27th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 290, pp. 15:1-15:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{amarilli_et_al:LIPIcs.ICDT.2024.15,
  author =	{Amarilli, Antoine and van Bremen, Timothy and Meel, Kuldeep S.},
  title =	{{Conjunctive Queries on Probabilistic Graphs: The Limits of Approximability}},
  booktitle =	{27th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2024)},
  pages =	{15:1--15:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-312-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{290},
  editor =	{Cormode, Graham and Shekelyan, Michael},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2024.15},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-197978},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2024.15},
  annote =	{Keywords: Probabilistic query evaluation, tuple-independent databases, approximation}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2024.17

Containment of Regular Path Queries Under Path Constraints

Authors: Sylvain Salvati and Sophie Tison

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 290, 27th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2024)

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Data integrity is ensured by expressing constraints it should satisfy. One can also view constraints as data properties and take advantage of them for several tasks such as reasoning about data or accelerating query processing. In the context of graph databases, simple constraints can be expressed by means of path constraints while simple queries are modeled as regular path queries (RPQs). In this paper, we investigate the containment of RPQs under path constraints. We focus on word constraints that can be viewed as tuple-generating dependencies (TGDs) of the form ∀x_1,x_2, ∃y⁻, a_1(x_1,y_1) ∧ ... ∧ a_i(y_{i-1},y_i) ∧ ... ∧ a_n(y_{n-1},x_2) ⟶ ∃z⁻, b_1(x_1,z_1) ∧ ... ∧ b_i(z_{i-1},z_i) ∧ ... ∧ b_m(z_{m-1},x_2). Such a constraint means that whenever two nodes in a graph are connected by a path labeled a_1 … a_n, there is also a path labeled b_1 … b_m that connects them. Rewrite systems offer an abstract view of these TGDs: the rewrite rule a_1 … a_n → b_1 … b_m represents the previous constraint. A set of constraints 𝒞 is then represented by a rewrite system R and, when dealing with possibly infinite databases, a path query p is contained in a path query q under the constraints 𝒞 iff p rewrites to q with R. Contrary to what has been claimed in the literature we show that, when restricting to finite databases only, there are cases where a path query p is contained in a path query q under the constraints 𝒞 while p does not rewrite to q with R. More generally, we study the finite controllability of the containment of RPQs under word constraints, that is when this containment problem on unrestricted databases does coincide with the finite case. We give an exact characterisation of the cases where this equivalence holds. We then deduce the undecidability of the containment problem in the finite case even when RPQs are restricted to word queries. We prove several properties related to finite controllability, and in particular that it is undecidable. We also exhibit some classes of word constraints that ensure the finite controllability and the decidability of the containment problem.

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Sylvain Salvati and Sophie Tison. Containment of Regular Path Queries Under Path Constraints. In 27th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 290, pp. 17:1-17:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{salvati_et_al:LIPIcs.ICDT.2024.17,
  author =	{Salvati, Sylvain and Tison, Sophie},
  title =	{{Containment of Regular Path Queries Under Path Constraints}},
  booktitle =	{27th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2024)},
  pages =	{17:1--17:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-312-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{290},
  editor =	{Cormode, Graham and Shekelyan, Michael},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2024.17},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-197994},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2024.17},
  annote =	{Keywords: Graph databases, rational path queries, query containment, TGDs, word constraints, rewrite systems, finite controllability, decision problems}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2024.18

Computing Data Distribution from Query Selectivities

Authors: Pankaj K. Agarwal, Rahul Raychaudhury, Stavros Sintos, and Jun Yang

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 290, 27th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2024)

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We are given a set 𝒵 = {(R_1,s_1), …, (R_n,s_n)}, where each R_i is a range in ℝ^d, such as rectangle or ball, and s_i ∈ [0,1] denotes its selectivity. The goal is to compute a small-size discrete data distribution 𝒟 = {(q₁,w₁),…, (q_m,w_m)}, where q_j ∈ ℝ^d and w_j ∈ [0,1] for each 1 ≤ j ≤ m, and ∑_{1≤j≤m} w_j = 1, such that 𝒟 is the most consistent with 𝒵, i.e., err_p(𝒟,𝒵) = 1/n ∑_{i = 1}ⁿ |s_i - ∑_{j=1}^m w_j⋅1(q_j ∈ R_i)|^p is minimized. In a database setting, 𝒵 corresponds to a workload of range queries over some table, together with their observed selectivities (i.e., fraction of tuples returned), and 𝒟 can be used as compact model for approximating the data distribution within the table without accessing the underlying contents. In this paper, we obtain both upper and lower bounds for this problem. In particular, we show that the problem of finding the best data distribution from selectivity queries is NP-complete. On the positive side, we describe a Monte Carlo algorithm that constructs, in time O((n+δ^{-d}) δ^{-2} polylog n), a discrete distribution 𝒟̃ of size O(δ^{-2}), such that err_p(𝒟̃,𝒵) ≤ min_𝒟 err_p(𝒟,𝒵)+δ (for p = 1,2,∞) where the minimum is taken over all discrete distributions. We also establish conditional lower bounds, which strongly indicate the infeasibility of relative approximations as well as removal of the exponential dependency on the dimension for additive approximations. This suggests that significant improvements to our algorithm are unlikely.

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Pankaj K. Agarwal, Rahul Raychaudhury, Stavros Sintos, and Jun Yang. Computing Data Distribution from Query Selectivities. In 27th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 290, pp. 18:1-18:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{agarwal_et_al:LIPIcs.ICDT.2024.18,
  author =	{Agarwal, Pankaj K. and Raychaudhury, Rahul and Sintos, Stavros and Yang, Jun},
  title =	{{Computing Data Distribution from Query Selectivities}},
  booktitle =	{27th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2024)},
  pages =	{18:1--18:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-312-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{290},
  editor =	{Cormode, Graham and Shekelyan, Michael},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2024.18},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-198007},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2024.18},
  annote =	{Keywords: selectivity queries, discrete distributions, Multiplicative Weights Update, eps-approximation, learnable functions, depth problem, arrangement}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/DagRep.13.8.46

Synergizing Theory and Practice of Automated Algorithm Design for Optimization (Dagstuhl Seminar 23332)

Authors: Diederick Vermetten, Martin S. Krejca, Marius Lindauer, Manuel López-Ibáñez, and Katherine M. Malan

Published in: Dagstuhl Reports, Volume 13, Issue 8 (2024)

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This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 23332, which focused on automated algorithm design (AAD) for optimization. AAD aims to propose good algorithms and/or parameters thereof for optimization problems in an automated fashion, instead of forcing this decision on the user. As such, AAD is applicable in a variety of domains. The seminar brought together a diverse, international set of researchers from AAD and closely related fields. Especially, we invited people from both the empirical and the theoretical domain. A main goal of the seminar was to enable vivid discussions between these two groups in order to synergize the knowledge from either domain, thus advancing the area of AAD as a whole, and to reduce the gap between theory and practice. Over the course of the seminar, a good mix of breakout sessions and talks took place, which were very well received and which we detail in this report. Efforts to synergize theory and practice bore some fruit, and other important aspects of AAD were highlighted and discussed. Overall, the seminar was a huge success.

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Diederick Vermetten, Martin S. Krejca, Marius Lindauer, Manuel López-Ibáñez, and Katherine M. Malan. Synergizing Theory and Practice of Automated Algorithm Design for Optimization (Dagstuhl Seminar 23332). In Dagstuhl Reports, Volume 13, Issue 8, pp. 46-70, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@Article{vermetten_et_al:DagRep.13.8.46,
  author =	{Vermetten, Diederick and Krejca, Martin S. and Lindauer, Marius and L\'{o}pez-Ib\'{a}\~{n}ez, Manuel and Malan, Katherine M.},
  title =	{{Synergizing Theory and Practice of Automated Algorithm Design for Optimization (Dagstuhl Seminar 23332)}},
  pages =	{46--70},
  journal =	{Dagstuhl Reports},
  ISSN =	{2192-5283},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{13},
  number =	{8},
  editor =	{Vermetten, Diederick and Krejca, Martin S. and Lindauer, Marius and L\'{o}pez-Ib\'{a}\~{n}ez, Manuel and Malan, Katherine M.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagRep.13.8.46},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-198128},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagRep.13.8.46},
  annote =	{Keywords: automated algorithm design, hyper-parameter tuning, parameter control, heuristic optimization, black-box optimization}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2024.1

Polynomial-Time Pseudodeterministic Constructions (Invited Talk)

Authors: Igor C. Oliveira

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 289, 41st International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2024)

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A randomised algorithm for a search problem is pseudodeterministic if it produces a fixed canonical solution to the search problem with high probability. In their seminal work on the topic, Gat and Goldwasser (2011) posed as their main open problem whether prime numbers can be pseudodeterministically constructed in polynomial time. We provide a positive solution to this question in the infinitely-often regime. In more detail, we give an unconditional polynomial-time randomised algorithm B such that, for infinitely many values of n, B(1ⁿ) outputs a canonical n-bit prime p_n with high probability. More generally, we prove that for every dense property Q of strings that can be decided in polynomial time, there is an infinitely-often pseudodeterministic polynomial-time construction of strings satisfying Q. This improves upon a subexponential-time pseudodeterministic construction of Oliveira and Santhanam (2017). This talk will cover the main ideas behind these constructions and discuss their implications, such as the existence of infinitely many primes with succinct and efficient representations.

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Igor C. Oliveira. Polynomial-Time Pseudodeterministic Constructions (Invited Talk). In 41st International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 289, p. 1:1, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{oliveira:LIPIcs.STACS.2024.1,
  author =	{Oliveira, Igor C.},
  title =	{{Polynomial-Time Pseudodeterministic Constructions}},
  booktitle =	{41st International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2024)},
  pages =	{1:1--1:1},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-311-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{289},
  editor =	{Beyersdorff, Olaf and Kant\'{e}, Mamadou Moustapha and Kupferman, Orna and Lokshtanov, Daniel},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2024.1},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-197112},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2024.1},
  annote =	{Keywords: Pseudorandomness, Explicit Constructions, Pseudodeterministic Algorithms}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2024.3

Structurally Tractable Graph Classes (Invited Talk)

Authors: Szymon Toruńczyk

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 289, 41st International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2024)

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Sparsity theory, initiated by Ossona de Mendez and Nešetřil, identifies those classes of sparse graphs that are tractable in various ways - algorithmically, combinatorially, and logically - as exactly the nowhere dense classes. An ongoing effort aims at generalizing sparsity theory to classes of graphs that are not necessarily sparse. Twin-width theory, developed by Bonnet, Thomassé and co-authors, is a step in that direction. A theory unifying the two is anticipated. It is conjectured that the relevant notion characterising dense graph classes that are tractable, generalising nowhere denseness and bounded twin-width, is the notion of a monadically dependent class, introduced by Shelah in model theory. I will survey the recent, rapid progress in the understanding of those classes, and of the related monadically stable classes. This development combines tools from structural graph theory, logic (finite and infinite model theory), and algorithms (parameterised algorithms and range search queries).

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Szymon Toruńczyk. Structurally Tractable Graph Classes (Invited Talk). In 41st International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 289, p. 3:1, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{torunczyk:LIPIcs.STACS.2024.3,
  author =	{Toru\'{n}czyk, Szymon},
  title =	{{Structurally Tractable Graph Classes}},
  booktitle =	{41st International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2024)},
  pages =	{3:1--3:1},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-311-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{289},
  editor =	{Beyersdorff, Olaf and Kant\'{e}, Mamadou Moustapha and Kupferman, Orna and Lokshtanov, Daniel},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2024.3},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-197134},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2024.3},
  annote =	{Keywords: Structural graph theory, Monadic dependence, monadic NIP, twin-width}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2024.4

Max Weight Independent Set in Sparse Graphs with No Long Claws

Authors: Tara Abrishami, Maria Chudnovsky, Marcin Pilipczuk, and Paweł Rzążewski

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 289, 41st International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2024)

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We revisit the recent polynomial-time algorithm for the Max Weight Independent Set (MWIS) problem in bounded-degree graphs that do not contain a fixed graph whose every component is a subdivided claw as an induced subgraph [Abrishami, Chudnovsky, Dibek, Rzążewski, SODA 2022]. First, we show that with an arguably simpler approach we can obtain a faster algorithm with running time n^{𝒪(Δ²)}, where n is the number of vertices of the instance and Δ is the maximum degree. Then we combine our technique with known results concerning tree decompositions and provide a polynomial-time algorithm for MWIS in graphs excluding a fixed graph whose every component is a subdivided claw as an induced subgraph, and a fixed biclique as a subgraph.

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Tara Abrishami, Maria Chudnovsky, Marcin Pilipczuk, and Paweł Rzążewski. Max Weight Independent Set in Sparse Graphs with No Long Claws. In 41st International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 289, pp. 4:1-4:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{abrishami_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2024.4,
  author =	{Abrishami, Tara and Chudnovsky, Maria and Pilipczuk, Marcin and Rz\k{a}\.{z}ewski, Pawe{\l}},
  title =	{{Max Weight Independent Set in Sparse Graphs with No Long Claws}},
  booktitle =	{41st International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2024)},
  pages =	{4:1--4:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-311-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{289},
  editor =	{Beyersdorff, Olaf and Kant\'{e}, Mamadou Moustapha and Kupferman, Orna and Lokshtanov, Daniel},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2024.4},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-197148},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2024.4},
  annote =	{Keywords: Max Weight Independent Set, subdivided claw, hereditary classes}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2024.5

Satisfiability of Context-Free String Constraints with Subword-Ordering and Transducers

Authors: C. Aiswarya, Soumodev Mal, and Prakash Saivasan

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 289, 41st International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2024)

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We study the satisfiability of string constraints where context-free membership constraints may be imposed on variables. Additionally a variable may be constrained to be a subword of a word obtained by shuffling variables and their transductions. The satisfiability problem is known to be undecidable even without rational transductions. It is known to be NExptime-complete without transductions, if the subword relations between variables do not have a cyclic dependency between them. We show that the satisfiability problem stays decidable in this fragment even when rational transductions are added. It is 2NExptime-complete with context-free membership, and NExptime-complete with only regular membership. For the lower bound we prove a technical lemma that is of independent interest: The length of the shortest word in the intersection of a pushdown automaton (of size 𝒪(n)) and n finite-state automata (each of size 𝒪(n)) can be double exponential in n.

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C. Aiswarya, Soumodev Mal, and Prakash Saivasan. Satisfiability of Context-Free String Constraints with Subword-Ordering and Transducers. In 41st International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 289, pp. 5:1-5:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{aiswarya_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2024.5,
  author =	{Aiswarya, C. and Mal, Soumodev and Saivasan, Prakash},
  title =	{{Satisfiability of Context-Free String Constraints with Subword-Ordering and Transducers}},
  booktitle =	{41st International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2024)},
  pages =	{5:1--5:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-311-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{289},
  editor =	{Beyersdorff, Olaf and Kant\'{e}, Mamadou Moustapha and Kupferman, Orna and Lokshtanov, Daniel},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2024.5},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-197154},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2024.5},
  annote =	{Keywords: satisfiability, subword, string constraints, context-free, transducers}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2024.7

Computing Twin-Width Parameterized by the Feedback Edge Number

Authors: Jakub Balabán, Robert Ganian, and Mathis Rocton

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 289, 41st International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2024)

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The problem of whether and how one can compute the twin-width of a graph - along with an accompanying contraction sequence - lies at the forefront of the area of algorithmic model theory. While significant effort has been aimed at obtaining a fixed-parameter approximation for the problem when parameterized by twin-width, here we approach the question from a different perspective and consider whether one can obtain (near-)optimal contraction sequences under a larger parameterization, notably the feedback edge number k. As our main contributions, under this parameterization we obtain (1) a linear bikernel for the problem of either computing a 2-contraction sequence or determining that none exists and (2) an approximate fixed-parameter algorithm which computes an 𝓁-contraction sequence (for an arbitrary specified 𝓁) or determines that the twin-width of the input graph is at least 𝓁. These algorithmic results rely on newly obtained insights into the structure of optimal contraction sequences, and as a byproduct of these we also slightly tighten the bound on the twin-width of graphs with small feedback edge number.

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Jakub Balabán, Robert Ganian, and Mathis Rocton. Computing Twin-Width Parameterized by the Feedback Edge Number. In 41st International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 289, pp. 7:1-7:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{balaban_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2024.7,
  author =	{Balab\'{a}n, Jakub and Ganian, Robert and Rocton, Mathis},
  title =	{{Computing Twin-Width Parameterized by the Feedback Edge Number}},
  booktitle =	{41st International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2024)},
  pages =	{7:1--7:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-311-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{289},
  editor =	{Beyersdorff, Olaf and Kant\'{e}, Mamadou Moustapha and Kupferman, Orna and Lokshtanov, Daniel},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2024.7},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-197170},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2024.7},
  annote =	{Keywords: twin-width, parameterized complexity, kernelization, feedback edge number}
}

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