@InProceedings{kratsch:LIPIcs.ESA.2016.59, author = {Kratsch, Stefan}, title = {{A Randomized Polynomial Kernelization for Vertex Cover with a Smaller Parameter}}, booktitle = {24th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2016)}, pages = {59:1--59:17}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-015-6}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2016}, volume = {57}, editor = {Sankowski, Piotr and Zaroliagis, Christos}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2016.59}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-64066}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2016.59}, annote = {Keywords: Vertex cover, parameterized complexity, kernelization} }