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The valued constraint satisfaction problem (VCSP) is an optimization framework originating from artificial intelligence which generalizes the classical constraint satisfaction problem (CSP). In this paper, we are interested in structural properties that can make problems from the VCSP framework, as well as other CSP variants, solvable to optimality in polynomial time. So far, the largest structural class that is known to be polynomial-time solvable to optimality is the class of bounded hypertree width instances introduced by Gottlob et al. Here, larger classes of tractable instances are singled out by using dynamic programming and structural decompositions based on a hypergraph invariant proposed by Grohe and Marx. In the second part of the paper, we take a different view on our optimization problems; instead of considering fixed arbitrary values for some structural invariant of the (hyper)graph structure of the constraints, we consider the problems parameterized by the tree-width of primal, dual, and incidence graphs, combined with several other basic parameters such as domain size and arity. Such parameterizations of plain CSPs have been studied by Samer and Szeider. Here, we extend their framework to encompass our optimization problems, by coupling it with further non-trivial machinery and new reductions. By doing so, we are able to determine numerous combinations of the considered parameters that make our optimization problems admit fixed-parameter algorithms.