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It starts with the boolean satisfiability problem and its numerous parameters, then discusses an application problem from railway optimization, and concludes with a communication problem in tree networks multicut in trees. Part ii discusses more advanced and specialized algorithmic ideas, bringing the reader to the cutting edge of current research. The rst of these books came very early in the history of parameterized complexity, and does therefore not include newer ideas. A parameterization of a decision problem is a function that assigns an integer parameter k to each input instance x. A fixed parameter is an algorithm that provides an optimal solution to a combinatorial problem. Citeseerx document details isaac councill, lee giles, pradeep teregowda. Parisdauphine and sangil oum kaist fwac16, yonsei university. The problem is nphard and has been extensively studied in the context of approximation algorithms and fixedparameter algorithms.
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