Short Cycles Make W-hard Problems Hard: FPT Algorithms for W-hard Problems in Graphs with no Short Cycles
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Algorithmica
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0178-4617,1432-0541
DOI: 10.1007/s00453-007-9148-9