Fundamentals of Parameterized Complexity

Fundamentals of Parameterized Complexity
Author: Rodney G. Downey
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 765
Release: 2013-12-03
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1447155599

This comprehensive and self-contained textbook presents an accessible overview of the state of the art of multivariate algorithmics and complexity. Increasingly, multivariate algorithmics is having significant practical impact in many application domains, with even more developments on the horizon. The text describes how the multivariate framework allows an extended dialog with a problem, enabling the reader who masters the complexity issues under discussion to use the positive and negative toolkits in their own research. Features: describes many of the standard algorithmic techniques available for establishing parametric tractability; reviews the classical hardness classes; explores the various limitations and relaxations of the methods; showcases the powerful new lower bound techniques; examines various different algorithmic solutions to the same problems, highlighting the insights to be gained from each approach; demonstrates how complexity methods and ideas have evolved over the past 25 years.

Parameterized Algorithms

Parameterized Algorithms
Author: Marek Cygan
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 618
Release: 2015-07-20
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3319212753

This comprehensive textbook presents a clean and coherent account of most fundamental tools and techniques in Parameterized Algorithms and is a self-contained guide to the area. The book covers many of the recent developments of the field, including application of important separators, branching based on linear programming, Cut & Count to obtain faster algorithms on tree decompositions, algorithms based on representative families of matroids, and use of the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis. A number of older results are revisited and explained in a modern and didactic way. The book provides a toolbox of algorithmic techniques. Part I is an overview of basic techniques, each chapter discussing a certain algorithmic paradigm. The material covered in this part can be used for an introductory course on fixed-parameter tractability. Part II discusses more advanced and specialized algorithmic ideas, bringing the reader to the cutting edge of current research. Part III presents complexity results and lower bounds, giving negative evidence by way of W[1]-hardness, the Exponential Time Hypothesis, and kernelization lower bounds. All the results and concepts are introduced at a level accessible to graduate students and advanced undergraduate students. Every chapter is accompanied by exercises, many with hints, while the bibliographic notes point to original publications and related work.

Parameterized Complexity

Parameterized Complexity
Author: Rodney G. Downey
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 538
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1461205158

An approach to complexity theory which offers a means of analysing algorithms in terms of their tractability. The authors consider the problem in terms of parameterized languages and taking "k-slices" of the language, thus introducing readers to new classes of algorithms which may be analysed more precisely than was the case until now. The book is as self-contained as possible and includes a great deal of background material. As a result, computer scientists, mathematicians, and graduate students interested in the design and analysis of algorithms will find much of interest.

Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming

Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming
Author: Helmut Simonis
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 984
Release: 2020-09-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3030584755

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, CP 2020, held in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, in September 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 55 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 122 submissions. They deal with all aspects of computing with constraints including theory, algorithms, environments, languages, models, systems, and applications such as decision making, resource allocation, scheduling, configuration, and planning. The papers were organized according to the following topics/tracks: technical track; application track; and CP and data science and machine learning.

Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science 2015

Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science 2015
Author: Giuseppe F. Italiano
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 633
Release: 2015-08-10
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3662480549

This two volume set LNCS 9234 and 9235 constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 40th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, MFCS 2015, held in Milan, Italy, in August 2015. The 82 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited talks were carefully selected from 201 submissions. The papers feature high-quality research in all branches of theoretical computer science. They have been organized in the following topical main sections: logic, semantics, automata, and theory of programming (volume 1) and algorithms, complexity, and games (volume 2).

Fundamentals of Computation Theory

Fundamentals of Computation Theory
Author: Leszek Antoni Gąsieniec
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2019-08-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 303025027X

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on Fundamentals of Computation Theory, FCT 2019, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in August 2019. The 21 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. In addition, the book contains 3 invited talks in full-paper length. The papers were organized in topical sections named: formal methods, complexity, and algorithms.

Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management

Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management
Author: Riccardo Dondi
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2016-07-04
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3319411683

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management, AAIM 2016, held in Bergamo, Italy, in July 2016. The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. The papers deal with current trends of research on algorithms, data structures, operation research, combinatorial optimization and their applications.

WALCOM: Algorithms and Computation

WALCOM: Algorithms and Computation
Author: Petra Mutzel
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2022-03-16
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 303096731X

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Algorithms and Computation, WALCOM 2022, which was held in Jember, Indonesia, during March 24-26, 2022. This proceedings volume contains 30 full papers which were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 89 submissions and 3 invited papers. They cover diverse areas of algorithms and computation, such as approximation algorithms, computational complexity, computational geometry, graph algorithms, graph drawing and visualization, online algorithms, parameterized complexity and property testing.

The Multivariate Algorithmic Revolution and Beyond

The Multivariate Algorithmic Revolution and Beyond
Author: Hans L. Bodlaender
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 521
Release: 2012-06-16
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642308910

Parameterized complexity is currently a thriving field in complexity theory and algorithm design. A significant part of the success of the field can be attributed to Michael R. Fellows. This Festschrift has been published in honor of Mike Fellows on the occasion of his 60th birthday. It contains 20 papers that showcase the important scientific contributions of this remarkable man, describes the history of the field of parameterized complexity, and also reflects on other parts of Mike Fellows’s unique and broad range of interests, including his work on the popularization of discrete mathematics for young children. The volume contains several surveys that introduce the reader to the field of parameterized complexity and discuss important notions, results, and developments in this field.