@InProceedings{sau_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2020.95, author = {Sau, Ignasi and Stamoulis, Giannos and Thilikos, Dimitrios M.}, title = {{An FPT-Algorithm for Recognizing k-Apices of Minor-Closed Graph Classes}}, booktitle = {47th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2020)}, pages = {95:1--95:20}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-138-2}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2020}, volume = {168}, editor = {Czumaj, Artur and Dawar, Anuj and Merelli, Emanuela}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2020.95}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-125027}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2020.95}, annote = {Keywords: Graph modification problems, irrelevant vertex technique, graph minors, parameterized algorithms} }