The lost continent of polynomial time: preprocessing and kernelization

  • Authors:
  • Michael R. Fellows

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia

  • Venue:
  • IWPEC'06 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Parameterized and Exact Computation
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

One of the main objectives of the talk is to survey the history of the practical algorithmic strategy of preprocessing (also called data-reduction and kernelization) since the beginnings of computer science, and to overview what theoretical computer science has been able to say about it.