Approximation Algorithms for Treewidth, Pathwidth, and Treedepth—A Short Survey

Publication date

2025

Authors

Bodlaender, HansORCID 0000-0002-9297-3330ISNI 0000000081342475

Editors

Kráľ, Daniel
Milanič, Martin

Advisors

Supervisors

Document Type

Part of book
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License

taverne

Abstract

This short survey discusses old and new approximation algorithms for treewidth, and for the related parameters pathwidth and treedepth.

Keywords

Approximation, Graph Algorithms, Pathwidth, Treedepth, Treewidth, Taverne, Theoretical Computer Science, General Computer Science

Citation

Bodlaender, H L 2025, Approximation Algorithms for Treewidth, Pathwidth, and Treedepth—A Short Survey. in D Kráľ & M Milanič (eds), Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science - 50th International Workshop, WG 2024, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 14760 LNCS, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, pp. 3-18, 50th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science, WG 2024, Gozd Martuljek, Slovenia, 19/06/24. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-75409-8_1, conference