@InProceedings{fomin_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2020.51, author = {Fomin, Fedor V. and Golovach, Petr A. and Stamoulis, Giannos and Thilikos, Dimitrios M.}, title = {{An Algorithmic Meta-Theorem for Graph Modification to Planarity and FOL}}, booktitle = {28th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2020)}, pages = {51:1--51:17}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-162-7}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2020}, volume = {173}, editor = {Grandoni, Fabrizio and Herman, Grzegorz and Sanders, Peter}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2020.51}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-129172}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2020.51}, annote = {Keywords: Graph modification Problems, Algorithmic meta-theorems, First Order Logic, Irrelevant vertex technique, Planar graphs, Surface embeddable graphs} }