May 9, 2019 · We seek to unify and generalize them using so-called blocking sets, which have played implicit and explicit roles in many results.

These bounds allow us to derive polynomial kernels for Vertex Cover parameterized by the size of a deletion set to graphs of bounded elimination distance to, ...

Mar 4, 2020 · A blocking set is a set of vertices such that no optimal vertex cover contains all vertices in the blocking set, and the study of minimal ...

May 9, 2019 · Abstract. The Vertex Cover problem plays an essential role in the study of polynomial kernelization in parameterized complexity, i.e. ...

These bounds allow us to derive polynomial kernels for Vertex Cover parameterized by the size of a deletion set to graphs of bounded elimination distance to, ...

Elimination Distances, Blocking Sets, and. Kernels for Vertex Cover. Eva-Maria C. Hols, Stefan Kratsch, and Astrid Pieterse. Page 2. Vertex Cover Kernelization.

Jan 1, 2022 · A blocking set is a set of vertices such that no optimal vertex cover contains all vertices in the blocking set, and the study of minimal ...

These bounds allow us to derive polynomial kernels for Vertex Cover parameterized by the size of a deletion set to graphs of bounded elimination distance to, ...

Elimination distance was introduced by Bulian and Dawar [4] in their study of the parameterized complexity of the graph isomorphism problem and has recently ...

The Vertex Cover problem plays an essential role in the study of polynomial kernelization in parameterized complexity, i.e., the study of provable and efficient ...