@InProceedings{hols_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2020.36, author = {Hols, Eva-Maria C. and Kratsch, Stefan and Pieterse, Astrid}, title = {{Elimination Distances, Blocking Sets, and Kernels for Vertex Cover}}, booktitle = {37th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2020)}, pages = {36:1--36:14}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-140-5}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2020}, volume = {154}, editor = {Paul, Christophe and Bl\"{a}ser, Markus}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2020.36}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-118974}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2020.36}, annote = {Keywords: Vertex Cover, kernelization, blocking sets, elimination distance, structural parameters} }