Parameterized Complexity
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Beschreibung
The idea for this book was conceived over the second bottle of Villa Maria's Caber net Medot '89, at the dinner of the Australasian Combinatorics Conference held at Palmerston North, New Zealand in December 1990, where the authors first met and discovered they had a number of interests in common. Initially, we embarked on a small project to try to formulate reductions to address the apparent parame terized intractability of DOMINATING SET, and to introduce a structure in which to frame our answers. Having spent several months trying to get the definitions for the reductions right (they now seem so obvious), we turned to our tattered copies of Garey and Johnson's work [239]. We were stunned to find that virtually none of the classical reductions worked in the parameterized setting. We then wondered if we'd be able to find any interesting reductions. Several years, many more bottles, so many papers, and reductions later it [3] seemed that we had unwittingly stumbled upon what we believe is a truly central and new area of complexity theory. It seemed to us that the material would be of great interest to people working in areas where exact algorithms for a small range of parameters are natural and useful (e. g. , Molecular Biology, VLSI design). The tractability theory was rich with distinctive and powerful techniques. The intractability theory seemed to have a deep structure and techniques all of its own.
This book presents an approach to complexity theory which offers a means of analyzing algorithms in terms of their tractability Downey considers problems in terms of parameterized languages and taking "k-slices" of the language, giving readers insight into new classes of algorithms which may be analyzed more precisely than before This book will be of great value to computer scientists and mathematicians interested in the design and analysis of algorithms
This monograph presents an approach to complexity theory which offers a means of analysing algorithms in terms of their tractability. This will be suitable for graduate students and researchers in computer science and mathematics, particularly those studying complexity theory.
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Rodney G. Downey
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Algorithms Automat Graph algorithm automata classification complexity complexity theory optimization combinatorics algorithm analysis and problem complexity