@InProceedings{shang_et_al:LIPIcs.IPEC.2017.28, author = {Shang, Lei and Garraffa, Michele and Della Croce, Federico and T'Kindt, Vincent}, title = {{Merging Nodes in Search Trees: an Exact Exponential Algorithm for the Single Machine Total Tardiness Scheduling Problem}}, booktitle = {12th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2017)}, pages = {28:1--28:12}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-051-4}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2018}, volume = {89}, editor = {Lokshtanov, Daniel and Nishimura, Naomi}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.IPEC.2017.28}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-85468}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.IPEC.2017.28}, annote = {Keywords: Exact exponential algorithm, Single machine total tardiness, Branch-and-merge} }