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Kernelization: An Overview

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Kernelization is a mathematical framework for the study of polynomial time pre-processing. Over the last few years Kernelization has received considerable attention. In this talk I will survey the recent developments in the field, and highlight some of the interesting research directions.

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Lokshtanov, D. (2011). Kernelization: An Overview. In: Owe, O., Steffen, M., Telle, J.A. (eds) Fundamentals of Computation Theory. FCT 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6914. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22953-4_3

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