@InProceedings{lopes_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2020.68, author = {Lopes, Raul and Sau, Ignasi}, title = {{A Relaxation of the Directed Disjoint Paths Problem: A Global Congestion Metric Helps}}, booktitle = {45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2020)}, pages = {68:1--68:15}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-159-7}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2020}, volume = {170}, editor = {Esparza, Javier and Kr\'{a}l', Daniel}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2020.68}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-127378}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2020.68}, annote = {Keywords: Parameterized complexity, directed disjoint paths, congestion, dual parameterization, kernelization, directed tree-width} }