Width Parameters Beyond Tree-width and Their Applications
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| Year of publication | 2007 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Computer Journal |
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| Web | doi |
| Field | Informatics |
| Keywords | tree-width; branch-width; rank-width; hypertree-width; parametrized complexity |
| Description | Besides the very successful concept of tree-width (see [H.~Bodlaender, A.~Koster: {Combinatorial optimisation on graphs of bounded treewidth}]), many concepts and parameters measuring the similarity or dissimilarity of structures compared to trees have been born and studied over the past years. These concepts and parameters have proved to be useful tools in many applications, especially in the design of efficient algorithms. Our presented novel look at the contemporary developments of these ``width'' parameters in combinatorial structures delivers --- besides traditional tree-width and derived dynamic programming schemes --- also a number of other useful parameters like branch-width, rank-width (clique-width), or hypertree-width. In this contribution we demonstrate how ``width'' parameters of graphs and generalized structures (like matroids or hypergraphs), can be used to improve the design of parameterized algorithms and the structural analysis in other applications on an abstract level. |
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