Handle-rewriting hypergraph grammars
Journal of Computer and System Sciences
A Linear-Time Algorithm for Finding Tree-Decompositions of Small Treewidth
SIAM Journal on Computing
Upper bounds to the clique width of graphs
Discrete Applied Mathematics
Polynomial Time Recognition of Clique-Width \le \leq 3 Graphs (Extended Abstract)
LATIN '00 Proceedings of the 4th Latin American Symposium on Theoretical Informatics
On the Band-, Tree-, and Clique-Width of Graphs with Bounded Vertex Degree
SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
On the Relationship Between Clique-Width and Treewidth
SIAM Journal on Computing
New Graph Classes of Bounded Clique-Width
Theory of Computing Systems
Approximating clique-width and branch-width
Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B
The relative clique-width of a graph
Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B
From Tree-Width to Clique-Width: Excluding a Unit Interval Graph
ISAAC '08 Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation
Recent developments on graphs of bounded clique-width
Discrete Applied Mathematics
A Complete Characterisation of the Linear Clique-Width of Path Powers
TAMC '09 Proceedings of the 6th Annual Conference on Theory and Applications of Models of Computation
SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
On a disparity between relative cliquewidth and relative NLC-width
Discrete Applied Mathematics
Width Parameters Beyond Tree-width and their Applications
The Computer Journal
A SAT approach to clique-width
SAT'13 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing
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Clique-width is one of the most important graph parameters, as many NP-hard graph problems are solvable in linear time on graphs of bounded clique-width. Unfortunately, the computation of clique-width is among the hardest problems. In fact, we do not know of any other algorithm than brute force for the exact computation of clique-width on any large graph class of unbounded clique-width. Another difficulty about clique-width is the lack of alternative characterisations of it that might help in coping with its hardness. In this paper, we present two results. The first is a new characterisation of clique-width based on rooted binary trees, completely without the use of labelled graphs. Our second result is the exact computation of the clique-width of large path powers in polynomial time, which has been an open problem for a decade. The presented new characterisation is used to achieve this latter result. With our result, large k-path powers constitute the first non-trivial infinite class of graphs of unbounded clique-width whose clique-width can be computed exactly in polynomial time.