Treewidth, Kernels, and Algorithms

This Festschrift was published in honor of Hans L. Bodlaender on the occasion of his 60th birthday.

The 14 full and 5 short contributions included in this volume show the many transformative discoveries made by H.L. Bodlaender in the areas of graph algorithms, parameterized complexity, kernelization and combinatorial games. The papers are written by his former Ph.D. students and colleagues as well as by his former Ph.D. advisor, Jan van Leeuwen.

Chapter Crossing Paths with Hans Bodlaender: A Personal View on Cross-Composition for Sparsification Lower Bounds is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Contains refereed papers dedicated to Hans L. Bodlaender and to his work Collects a number of papers by Hans' collaborators over the years presenting a broad range of topics reflecting Hans' versatility Depicts Hans L. Bodlaender's major contributions to algorithms research, complexity theory, and graph theory

Inhalt
Seeing Arboretum for the (partial k) Trees.- Collaborating With Hans: Some Remaining Wonderments.- Hans Bodlaender and the Theory of Kernelization Lower Bounds.- Algorithms, Complexity, and Hans.- Lower Bounds for Dominating Set in Ball Graphs and for Weighted Dominating Set in Unit-Ball Graphs.- As Time Goes By: Reflections on Treewidth for Temporal Graphs.- Possible and Impossible Attempts to Solve the Treewidth Problem via ILPs.- Crossing Paths with Hans Bodlaender: A Personal View on Cross-Composition for Sparsification Lower Bounds.- Efficient Graph Minors Theory and Parameterized Algorithms for (Planar) Disjoint Paths.- Four shorts stories on surprising algorithmic uses of treewidth.- Algorithms for NP-Hard Problems via Rank-related Parameters of Matrices.- A Survey on Spanning Tree Congestion.- Surprising Applications of Treewidth Bounds for Planar Graphs.- Computing tree decompositions.- Experimental analysis of treewidth.- A Retrospective on (Meta) Kernelization.- Games, Puzzles and Treewidth.- Fast Algorithms for Join Operations on Tree Decompositions.

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