Parameterized and Exact Computation 8th International Symposium, IPEC 2013, Sophia Antipolis, France, September 4-6, 2013, Revised Selected Papers

Exact Complexity and Satisfiability.- The Parameterized Complexity of Fixpoint Free Elements and Bases in Permutation Groups.- Parameterized Complexity of Two Edge Contraction Problems with Degree Constraints.- Declarative Dynamic Programming as an Alternative Realization of Courcelle’s Theorem.- The Fine Details of Fast Dynamic Programming over Tree Decompositions.- On Subexponential and FPT-Time Inapproximability.- Multi-parameter Complexity Analysis for Constrained Size Graph Problems: Using Greediness for Parameterization.- Chain Minors Are FPT.- Incompressibility of H -Free Edge Modification.- Contracting Few Edges to Remove Forbidden Induced Subgraphs.- Fixed-Parameter and Approximation Algorithms: A New Look.- Subgraphs Satisfying MSO Properties on z -Topologically Orderable Digraphs.- Computing Tree-Depth Faster Than 2 n.-  Faster Exact Algorithms for Some Terminal Set Problems.- Parameterized Algorithms for Modular-Width.- A Faster FPT Algorithm for Bipartite Contraction.- On the Ordered List Subgraph Embedding Problems.- A Completeness Theory for Polynomial (Turing) Kernelization.- On Sparsification for Computing Treewidth.- The Jump Number Problem: Exact and Parameterized.- On the Hardness of Eliminating Small Induced Subgraphs by Contracting Edges.- Hardness of r -dominating set on Graphs of Diameter ( r + 1).- Amalgam Width of Matroids.- On the Parameterized Complexity of Reconfiguration Problems.- FPT Algorithms for Consecutive Ones Submatrix Problems.- Upper Bounds on Boolean-Width with Applications to Exact Algorithms.- Speeding Up Dynamic Programming with Representative Sets: An Experimental Evaluation of Algorithms for Steiner Tree on Tree Decompositions.- Completeness Results for Parameterized Space Classes.- Treewidth and Pure Nash Equilibria.- Algorithms for k -Internal Out-Branching.