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One of the main objectives of the talk is to survey the history of the practical algorithmic strategy of preprocessing (also called data-reduction and kernelization) since the beginnings of computer science, and to overview what theoretical computer science has been able to say about it.
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Fellows, M.R. (2006). The Lost Continent of Polynomial Time: Preprocessing and Kernelization. In: Bodlaender, H.L., Langston, M.A. (eds) Parameterized and Exact Computation. IWPEC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4169. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11847250_25
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