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Treewidth: Structure and Algorithms

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This paper surveys some aspects of the graph theoretic notion of treewidth. In particular, we look at the interaction between different characterizations of the notion, and algorithms and algorithmic applications.

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Bodlaender, H.L. (2007). Treewidth: Structure and Algorithms. In: Prencipe, G., Zaks, S. (eds) Structural Information and Communication Complexity. SIROCCO 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4474. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72951-8_3

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