Parameterized Complexity Theory (Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: March 16, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 493
ISBN-13: 9783540299523
Subjects: Computer architecture & logic design; General Theory of Computing; Mathematical logic; Logic Design; Computers; Computers - General Information; Computer Books: General; Computer Science; Logic; Complexity theory; Computers / Computer Science; Linear programming; Optimization; Parameterized complexity; Theoretical computer science; Tractability
Description: Parameterized complexity theory is a recent branch of computational complexity theory that provides a framework for a refined analysis of hard algorithmic problems. The central notion of the theory, fixed-parameter tractability, has led to the development of various new algorithmic techniques and a whole new theory of intractability. This book is a state-of-the-art introduction to both algorithmic techniques for fixed-parameter tractability and the structural theory of parameterized complexity classes, and it presents detailed proofs of recent advanced results that have not appeared in book form before. Several chapters are each devoted to intractability, algorithmic techniques for designing fixed-parameter tractable algorithms, and bounded fixed-parameter tractability and subexponential time complexity. The treatment is comprehensive, and the reader is supported with exercises, notes, a detailed index, and some background on complexity theory and logic. The book will be of interest to computer scientists, mathematicians and graduate students engaged with algorithms and problem complexity.