Minimum quartet inconsistency is fixed parameter tractable

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2089, Issue , 2001, Pages 241-256

  Gramm, Jens ^a   Niedermeier, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY TREES; FORESTRY; PATTERN MATCHING;

ALL SOLUTIONS; EVOLUTIONARY TREE; EXPONENTIAL GROWTH; FIXED-PARAMETER TRACTABILITY; K ERRORS; NP COMPLETE; PARAMETERIZED COMPLEXITY; POSITIVE INTEGERS;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 32144453282     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-48194-x_23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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