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Treewidth, Extended Formulations of CSP and MSO Polytopes, and their Algorithmic Applications
Koutecký, Martin ; Kolman, Petr (advisor) ; Fellows, Michael R. (referee) ; Tantau, Till (referee)
In the present thesis we provide compact extended formulations for a wide range of polytopes associated with the constraint satisfaction problem (CSP), monadic second order logic (MSO) on graphs, and extensions of MSO, when the given instances have bounded treewidth. We show that our extended formulations have additional useful properties, and we uncover connections between MSO and CSP. We conclude that a combination of the MSO logic, CSP and geometry provides an extensible framework for the design of compact extended formulations and parameterized algorithms for graphs of bounded treewidth. Putting our framework to use, we settle the parameterized complexity landscape for various extensions of MSO when parameterized by two important graph width parameters, namely treewidth and neighborhood diversity. We discover that the (non)linearity of the MSO extension determines the difference between fixedparameter tractability and intractability when parameterized by neighborhood diversity. Finally, we study shifted combinatorial optimization, a new nonlinear optimization framework generalizing standard combinatorial optimization, and provide initial findings from the perspective of parameterized complexity
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On the Hardness of General Caching
Folwarczný, Lukáš ; Sgall, Jiří (advisor) ; Koutecký, Martin (referee)
Caching (also known as paging) is a classical problem concerning page re- placement policies in two-level memory systems. General caching is its vari- ant with pages of different sizes and fault costs. We aim at a better charac- terization of the computational complexity of general caching in the offline version. General caching in the offline version was recently shown to be strongly NP- hard, but the proof needed instances of caching with pages larger than half of the cache size. The primary result of this work addresses this problem as we prove: General caching is strongly NP-hard even when page sizes are limited to {1, 2, 3}. In the structural part of this work, a new simpler proof for the full characterization of work functions by layers for classical caching is given and then extended to caching with variable cache size. We invent two algorithms for restricted instances of general caching building on results around caching with variable cache size.
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Obtížné problémy vzhledem k parametru různorodost sousedství
Koutecký, Martin ; Kolman, Petr (advisor) ; Fiala, Jiří (referee)
Parameterized complexity is a part of computer science dealing with the computational complexity of problems measured not only by the length of their input but also some parameter of the input. Nei- ghborhood diversity is a recently introduced parameter describing a certain structure of a graph. is parameter is aractive for resear especially because some problems whi are hard with respect to other parameters that are incomparable with neighborhood diversity become fixed-parameter tractable with respect to neighborhood diversity. In this thesis we show fixed-parameter tractability for three problems that are hard with respect to treewidth. is constitutes the main part of this thesis and it is our original work. Next it contains an overview of other interesting problems and also a survey of the state of the art in the area of parameters for sparse and dense graphs. 1
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Optimization in graphs with bounded treewidth
Koutecký, Martin ; Kolman, Petr (advisor) ; Kráľ, Daniel (referee)
Courcelle's theorem speaks about computational complexity of decision problems defined by formulae in monadic second order logic over relational structures with bounded treewodth. For a fixed treewidth and a fixed formula, Courcelle's theorem gives an algorithm, which decides the formula over a structure of said treewidth in linear time. is thesis provides a self-contained proof of Courcelle's theorem using methods of finite model theory. Furthermore it contains the proofs of all propositions and theorems upon which the main proof depends, notably the Ehrenfeucht-Fraïssé theorem widely used in finite model theory. e thesis also contains an implementa- tion of an algorithm which follows from the main proof. Finally a sketch of the current state of the art of the area of research is given, as well as the possibilities following from it. 1
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