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Polynomial-Time Approximation of Independent Set Parameterized by Treewidth

Authors: Parinya Chalermsook, Fedor Fomin, Thekla Hamm, Tuukka Korhonen, Jesper Nederlof, and Ly Orgo

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 274, 31st Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2023)


Abstract
We prove the following result about approximating the maximum independent set in a graph. Informally, we show that any approximation algorithm with a "non-trivial" approximation ratio (as a function of the number of vertices of the input graph G) can be turned into an approximation algorithm achieving almost the same ratio, albeit as a function of the treewidth of G. More formally, we prove that for any function f, the existence of a polynomial time (n/f(n))-approximation algorithm yields the existence of a polynomial time O(tw⋅log{f(tw)}/f(tw))-approximation algorithm, where n and tw denote the number of vertices and the width of a given tree decomposition of the input graph. By pipelining our result with the state-of-the-art O(n ⋅ (log log n)²/log³n)-approximation algorithm by Feige (2004), this implies an O(tw⋅(log log tw)³/log³tw)-approximation algorithm.

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Parinya Chalermsook, Fedor Fomin, Thekla Hamm, Tuukka Korhonen, Jesper Nederlof, and Ly Orgo. Polynomial-Time Approximation of Independent Set Parameterized by Treewidth. In 31st Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 274, pp. 33:1-33:13, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)


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@InProceedings{chalermsook_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2023.33,
  author =	{Chalermsook, Parinya and Fomin, Fedor and Hamm, Thekla and Korhonen, Tuukka and Nederlof, Jesper and Orgo, Ly},
  title =	{{Polynomial-Time Approximation of Independent Set Parameterized by Treewidth}},
  booktitle =	{31st Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2023)},
  pages =	{33:1--33:13},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-295-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{274},
  editor =	{G{\o}rtz, Inge Li and Farach-Colton, Martin and Puglisi, Simon J. and Herman, Grzegorz},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2023.33},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-186865},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2023.33},
  annote =	{Keywords: Maximum Independent Set, Treewidth, Approximation Algorithms, Parameterized Approximation}
}
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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
The Fine-Grained Complexity of Graph Homomorphism Parameterized by Clique-Width

Authors: Robert Ganian, Thekla Hamm, Viktoriia Korchemna, Karolina Okrasa, and Kirill Simonov

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 229, 49th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2022)


Abstract
The generic homomorphism problem, which asks whether an input graph G admits a homomorphism into a fixed target graph H, has been widely studied in the literature. In this article, we provide a fine-grained complexity classification of the running time of the homomorphism problem with respect to the clique-width of G (denoted cw) for virtually all choices of H under the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis. In particular, we identify a property of H called the signature number s(H) and show that for each H, the homomorphism problem can be solved in time O^*(s(H)^cw). Crucially, we then show that this algorithm can be used to obtain essentially tight upper bounds. Specifically, we provide a reduction that yields matching lower bounds for each H that is either a projective core or a graph admitting a factorization with additional properties - allowing us to cover all possible target graphs under long-standing conjectures.

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Robert Ganian, Thekla Hamm, Viktoriia Korchemna, Karolina Okrasa, and Kirill Simonov. The Fine-Grained Complexity of Graph Homomorphism Parameterized by Clique-Width. In 49th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 229, pp. 66:1-66:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)


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@InProceedings{ganian_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2022.66,
  author =	{Ganian, Robert and Hamm, Thekla and Korchemna, Viktoriia and Okrasa, Karolina and Simonov, Kirill},
  title =	{{The Fine-Grained Complexity of Graph Homomorphism Parameterized by Clique-Width}},
  booktitle =	{49th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2022)},
  pages =	{66:1--66:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-235-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{229},
  editor =	{Boja\'{n}czyk, Miko{\l}aj and Merelli, Emanuela and Woodruff, David P.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2022.66},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-164076},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2022.66},
  annote =	{Keywords: homomorphism, clique-width, fine-grained complexity}
}
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Parameterised Partially-Predrawn Crossing Number

Authors: Thekla Hamm and Petr Hliněný

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 224, 38th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2022)


Abstract
Inspired by the increasingly popular research on extending partial graph drawings, we propose a new perspective on the traditional and arguably most important geometric graph parameter, the crossing number. Specifically, we define the partially predrawn crossing number to be the smallest number of crossings in any drawing of a graph, part of which is prescribed on the input (not counting the prescribed crossings). Our main result - an FPT-algorithm to compute the partially predrawn crossing number - combines advanced ideas from research on the classical crossing number and so called partial planarity in a very natural but intricate way. Not only do our techniques generalise the known FPT-algorithm by Grohe for computing the standard crossing number, they also allow us to substantially improve a number of recent parameterised results for various drawing extension problems.

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Thekla Hamm and Petr Hliněný. Parameterised Partially-Predrawn Crossing Number. In 38th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 224, pp. 46:1-46:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)


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@InProceedings{hamm_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2022.46,
  author =	{Hamm, Thekla and Hlin\v{e}n\'{y}, Petr},
  title =	{{Parameterised Partially-Predrawn Crossing Number}},
  booktitle =	{38th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2022)},
  pages =	{46:1--46:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-227-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{224},
  editor =	{Goaoc, Xavier and Kerber, Michael},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2022.46},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-160547},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2022.46},
  annote =	{Keywords: Crossing Number, Drawing Extension, Partial Planarity, Parameterised Complexity}
}
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A Unifying Framework for Characterizing and Computing Width Measures

Authors: Eduard Eiben, Robert Ganian, Thekla Hamm, Lars Jaffke, and O-joung Kwon

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 215, 13th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2022)


Abstract
Algorithms for computing or approximating optimal decompositions for decompositional parameters such as treewidth or clique-width have so far traditionally been tailored to specific width parameters. Moreover, for mim-width, no efficient algorithms for computing good decompositions were known, even under highly restrictive parameterizations. In this work we identify ℱ-branchwidth as a class of generic decompositional parameters that can capture mim-width, treewidth, clique-width as well as other measures. We show that while there is an infinite number of ℱ-branchwidth parameters, only a handful of these are asymptotically distinct. We then develop fixed-parameter and kernelization algorithms (under several structural parameterizations) that can approximate every possible ℱ-branchwidth, providing a unifying parameterized framework that can efficiently obtain near-optimal tree-decompositions, k-expressions, as well as optimal mim-width decompositions.

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Eduard Eiben, Robert Ganian, Thekla Hamm, Lars Jaffke, and O-joung Kwon. A Unifying Framework for Characterizing and Computing Width Measures. In 13th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 215, pp. 63:1-63:23, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)


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@InProceedings{eiben_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2022.63,
  author =	{Eiben, Eduard and Ganian, Robert and Hamm, Thekla and Jaffke, Lars and Kwon, O-joung},
  title =	{{A Unifying Framework for Characterizing and Computing Width Measures}},
  booktitle =	{13th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2022)},
  pages =	{63:1--63:23},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-217-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{215},
  editor =	{Braverman, Mark},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2022.63},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-156592},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2022.63},
  annote =	{Keywords: branchwidth, parameterized algorithms, mim-width, treewidth, clique-width}
}
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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
Crossing-Optimal Extension of Simple Drawings

Authors: Robert Ganian, Thekla Hamm, Fabian Klute, Irene Parada, and Birgit Vogtenhuber

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 198, 48th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2021)


Abstract
In extension problems of partial graph drawings one is given an incomplete drawing of an input graph G and is asked to complete the drawing while maintaining certain properties. A prominent area where such problems arise is that of crossing minimization. For plane drawings and various relaxations of these, there is a number of tractability as well as lower-bound results exploring the computational complexity of crossing-sensitive drawing extension problems. In contrast, comparatively few results are known on extension problems for the fundamental and broad class of simple drawings, that is, drawings in which each pair of edges intersects in at most one point. In fact, the extension problem of simple drawings has only recently been shown to be NP-hard even for inserting a single edge. In this paper we present tractability results for the crossing-sensitive extension problem of simple drawings. In particular, we show that the problem of inserting edges into a simple drawing is fixed-parameter tractable when parameterized by the number of edges to insert and an upper bound on newly created crossings. Using the same proof techniques, we are also able to answer several closely related variants of this problem, among others the extension problem for k-plane drawings. Moreover, using a different approach, we provide a single-exponential fixed-parameter algorithm for the case in which we are only trying to insert a single edge into the drawing.

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Robert Ganian, Thekla Hamm, Fabian Klute, Irene Parada, and Birgit Vogtenhuber. Crossing-Optimal Extension of Simple Drawings. In 48th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 198, pp. 72:1-72:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)


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@InProceedings{ganian_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2021.72,
  author =	{Ganian, Robert and Hamm, Thekla and Klute, Fabian and Parada, Irene and Vogtenhuber, Birgit},
  title =	{{Crossing-Optimal Extension of Simple Drawings}},
  booktitle =	{48th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2021)},
  pages =	{72:1--72:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-195-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{198},
  editor =	{Bansal, Nikhil and Merelli, Emanuela and Worrell, James},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2021.72},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-141412},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2021.72},
  annote =	{Keywords: Simple drawings, Extension problems, Crossing minimization, FPT-algorithms}
}
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Extending Nearly Complete 1-Planar Drawings in Polynomial Time

Authors: Eduard Eiben, Robert Ganian, Thekla Hamm, Fabian Klute, and Martin Nöllenburg

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 170, 45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2020)


Abstract
The problem of extending partial geometric graph representations such as plane graphs has received considerable attention in recent years. In particular, given a graph G, a connected subgraph H of G and a drawing H of H, the extension problem asks whether H can be extended into a drawing of G while maintaining some desired property of the drawing (e.g., planarity). In their breakthrough result, Angelini et al. [ACM TALG 2015] showed that the extension problem is polynomial-time solvable when the aim is to preserve planarity. Very recently we considered this problem for partial 1-planar drawings [ICALP 2020], which are drawings in the plane that allow each edge to have at most one crossing. The most important question identified and left open in that work is whether the problem can be solved in polynomial time when H can be obtained from G by deleting a bounded number of vertices and edges. In this work, we answer this question positively by providing a constructive polynomial-time decision algorithm.

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Eduard Eiben, Robert Ganian, Thekla Hamm, Fabian Klute, and Martin Nöllenburg. Extending Nearly Complete 1-Planar Drawings in Polynomial Time. In 45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 170, pp. 31:1-31:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)


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@InProceedings{eiben_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2020.31,
  author =	{Eiben, Eduard and Ganian, Robert and Hamm, Thekla and Klute, Fabian and N\"{o}llenburg, Martin},
  title =	{{Extending Nearly Complete 1-Planar Drawings in Polynomial Time}},
  booktitle =	{45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2020)},
  pages =	{31:1--31:16},
  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.2020.31},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-126998},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2020.31},
  annote =	{Keywords: Extension problems, 1-planarity}
}
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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
Extending Partial 1-Planar Drawings

Authors: Eduard Eiben, Robert Ganian, Thekla Hamm, Fabian Klute, and Martin Nöllenburg

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 168, 47th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2020)


Abstract
Algorithmic extension problems of partial graph representations such as planar graph drawings or geometric intersection representations are of growing interest in topological graph theory and graph drawing. In such an extension problem, we are given a tuple (G,H,ℋ) consisting of a graph G, a connected subgraph H of G and a drawing ℋ of H, and the task is to extend ℋ into a drawing of G while maintaining some desired property of the drawing, such as planarity. In this paper we study the problem of extending partial 1-planar drawings, which are drawings in the plane that allow each edge to have at most one crossing. In addition we consider the subclass of IC-planar drawings, which are 1-planar drawings with independent crossings. Recognizing 1-planar graphs as well as IC-planar graphs is NP-complete and the NP-completeness easily carries over to the extension problem. Therefore, our focus lies on establishing the tractability of such extension problems in a weaker sense than polynomial-time tractability. Here, we show that both problems are fixed-parameter tractable when parameterized by the number of edges missing from H, i.e., the edge deletion distance between H and G. The second part of the paper then turns to a more powerful parameterization which is based on measuring the vertex+edge deletion distance between the partial and complete drawing, i.e., the minimum number of vertices and edges that need to be deleted to obtain H from G.

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Eduard Eiben, Robert Ganian, Thekla Hamm, Fabian Klute, and Martin Nöllenburg. Extending Partial 1-Planar Drawings. In 47th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 168, pp. 43:1-43:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)


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@InProceedings{eiben_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2020.43,
  author =	{Eiben, Eduard and Ganian, Robert and Hamm, Thekla and Klute, Fabian and N\"{o}llenburg, Martin},
  title =	{{Extending Partial 1-Planar Drawings}},
  booktitle =	{47th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2020)},
  pages =	{43:1--43:19},
  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.2020.43},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-124509},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2020.43},
  annote =	{Keywords: Extension problems, 1-planarity, parameterized algorithms}
}
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Finding Linear Arrangements of Hypergraphs with Bounded Cutwidth in Linear Time

Authors: Thekla Hamm

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 148, 14th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2019)


Abstract
Cutwidth is a fundamental graph layout parameter. It generalises to hypergraphs in a natural way and has been studied in a wide range of contexts. For graphs it is known that for a fixed constant k there is a linear time algorithm that for any given G, decides whether G has cutwidth at most k and, in the case of a positive answer, outputs a corresponding linear arrangement. We show that such an algorithm also exists for hypergraphs.

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Thekla Hamm. Finding Linear Arrangements of Hypergraphs with Bounded Cutwidth in Linear Time. In 14th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 148, pp. 20:1-20:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)


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@InProceedings{hamm:LIPIcs.IPEC.2019.20,
  author =	{Hamm, Thekla},
  title =	{{Finding Linear Arrangements of Hypergraphs with Bounded Cutwidth in Linear Time}},
  booktitle =	{14th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2019)},
  pages =	{20:1--20:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-129-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{148},
  editor =	{Jansen, Bart M. P. and Telle, Jan Arne},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.IPEC.2019.20},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-114812},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.IPEC.2019.20},
  annote =	{Keywords: Fixed parameter linear, Path decomposition, Hypergraph}
}
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Measuring what Matters: A Hybrid Approach to Dynamic Programming with Treewidth

Authors: Eduard Eiben, Robert Ganian, Thekla Hamm, and O-joung Kwon

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 138, 44th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2019)


Abstract
We develop a framework for applying treewidth-based dynamic programming on graphs with "hybrid structure", i.e., with parts that may not have small treewidth but instead possess other structural properties. Informally, this is achieved by defining a refinement of treewidth which only considers parts of the graph that do not belong to a pre-specified tractable graph class. Our approach allows us to not only generalize existing fixed-parameter algorithms exploiting treewidth, but also fixed-parameter algorithms which use the size of a modulator as their parameter. As the flagship application of our framework, we obtain a parameter that combines treewidth and rank-width to obtain fixed-parameter algorithms for Chromatic Number, Hamiltonian Cycle, and Max-Cut.

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Eduard Eiben, Robert Ganian, Thekla Hamm, and O-joung Kwon. Measuring what Matters: A Hybrid Approach to Dynamic Programming with Treewidth. In 44th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 138, pp. 42:1-42:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)


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@InProceedings{eiben_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2019.42,
  author =	{Eiben, Eduard and Ganian, Robert and Hamm, Thekla and Kwon, O-joung},
  title =	{{Measuring what Matters: A Hybrid Approach to Dynamic Programming with Treewidth}},
  booktitle =	{44th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2019)},
  pages =	{42:1--42:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-117-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{138},
  editor =	{Rossmanith, Peter and Heggernes, Pinar and Katoen, Joost-Pieter},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2019.42},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-109867},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2019.42},
  annote =	{Keywords: Parameterized complexity, treewidth, rank-width, fixed-parameter algorithms}
}
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