Prof. Dr. Rolf Niedermeier

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Research interests

Parameterized Computational Complexity, NP-hard problems, Exact Algorithms, Graph Algorithms.

Book

Rolf Niedermeier:
Invitation to Fixed-Parameter Algorithms
Oxford Lecture Series in Mathematics and Its Applications, Oxford University Press
312 pages, February 2006

This research-level text is an application-oriented introduction to the growing and highly topical area of the development and analysis of efficient fixed-parameter algorithms for optimally solving computationally hard combinatorial problems. The book is divided into three parts: a broad introduction that provides the general philosophy and motivation; followed by coverage of algorithmic methods developed over the years in fixed-parameter algorithmics forming the core of the book; and a discussion of the essentials from parameterized hardness theory with a focus on W[1]-hardness which parallels NP-hardness, then stating some relations to polynomial-time approximation algorithms, and finishing up with a list of selected case studies to show the wide range of applicability of the presented methodology. Aimed at graduate and research mathematicians, programmers, algorithm designers, and computer scientists, the book introduces the basic techniques and results and provides a fresh view on this highly innovative field of algorithmic research.

280 slides in PDF format from a winter term 2005/2006 lecture "Fixed-Parameter Algorithms" closely following the book are available (contact Rolf Niedermeier for more information).

Teaching: Lectures and Seminars

Details on time and location of the following events can be found in the CAJ (students only).