@InProceedings{fomin_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2023.61, author = {Fomin, Fedor V. and Golovach, Petr A. and Sau, Ignasi and Stamoulis, Giannos and Thilikos, Dimitrios M.}, title = {{Compound Logics for Modification Problems}}, booktitle = {50th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2023)}, pages = {61:1--61:21}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-278-5}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2023}, volume = {261}, editor = {Etessami, Kousha and Feige, Uriel and Puppis, Gabriele}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2023.61}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-181137}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2023.61}, annote = {Keywords: Algorithmic meta-theorems, Graph modification problems, Model-checking, Graph minors, First-order logic, Monadic second-order logic, Flat Wall theorem, Irrelevant vertex technique} }