\begin{frame}{General Motivation} \begin{columns}[c] \begin{column}{0.5\textwidth} \begin{enumerate} \item Choose infeasible problem \begin{itemize} \item Combinatorial Problems \item Computational Biology \item Constraint Satisfaction \item \dots{} \end{itemize} \item Find FPT$_{tw}$ algorithm \item Model problem as graph \item Compute \emph{tree composition} with small \emph{tree width} \uncover<2>{\alert{\item Tract the intractable}} \end{enumerate} \end{column} \begin{column}{0.8\textwidth} \begin{center} \begin{tikzpicture}[xscale=1.5,yscale=1.6] \tikzstyle{every node}=[] \tikzstyle{every path}=[line width=0pt] % \begin{scope} \draw[fill,green,opacity=1,line width=0] (-1.5,0) -- (1.5,0) (-1,0) .. controls (-.8,1) and (.8,1) .. (1,0); ; % \draw[fill,green!50,opacity=1,line width=0] (-1,0) .. controls (-.8,1) and (.8,1) .. (1,0) (1.1,0) .. controls (1.1,2.5) and (-1.1,2.5) .. (-1.1,0) ; % \draw[fill,red!50,opacity=1,line width=0] (1.1,0) .. controls (1.1,2.5) and (-1.1,2.5) .. (-1.1,0) (-1.2,0) .. controls (-1.2,3.5) and (1.2,3.5) .. (1.2,0) ; % \draw[fill,red!100,opacity=1,line width=0] (-1.2,0) .. controls (-1.2,3.5) and (1.2,3.5) .. (1.2,0) (1.5,0) .. controls (1.5,4.5) and (-3,4.5) .. (-1.5,0) ; \draw[fill,red!100,opacity=1,line width=0] (-1.2,0) .. controls (-1.2,3.5) and (1.2,3.5) .. (1.2,0) (1.5,0) .. controls (3,4.5) and (-1.5,4.5) .. (-1.5,0) ; % \draw (-1.5,0) -- (1.5,0) (0,0.25) node[] {P} (-1,0) .. controls (-.8,1) and (.8,1) .. (1,0) % (0,1.25) node[] {FPT} (-1.1,0) .. controls (-1.1,2.5) and (1.1,2.5) .. (1.1,0) % (0,2.15) node[] {W[i]} (-1.2,0) .. controls (-1.2,3.5) and (1.2,3.5) .. (1.2,0) % (-1,2.9) node[] {XP} % (0,2.8) node[circle,black,fill,inner sep=0pt] {} % (0,2.6) node[circle,black,fill,inner sep=0pt] {} % (0,2.4) node[circle,black,fill,inner sep=0pt] {} (-1.5,0) .. controls (-3,4.5) and (1.5,4.5) .. (1.5,0) % (1,2.9) node[] {paraNP} % (0,2.8) node[circle,black,fill,inner sep=0pt] {} % (0,2.6) node[circle,black,fill,inner sep=0pt] {} % (0,2.4) node[circle,black,fill,inner sep=0pt] {} (-1.5,0) .. controls (-1.5,4.5) and (3,4.5) .. (1.5,0) ; \end{scope} \end{tikzpicture} \end{center} \end{column} \end{columns} \end{frame} \begin{frame}{Why Upper Bounds?} \metroset{block=fill} \begin{block}{We want (efficiently)} \begin{itemize} \item \emph{High} Lower Bound: Tree dec. not the right tool \item \emph{Low} Upper Bound: Tree dec. works \item Other combinations? -- Not so useful \end{itemize} \end{block} \begin{block}{What this paper is about} \smallskip Exact algorithm: Huge constant factor \cite{roehrig1998} \begin{itemize} \item[$\rightarrow$] Find a non-optimal tree decomposition \item[$\rightarrow$] This is also an Upper Bound \end{itemize} \end{block} \end{frame} %%% Local Variables: %%% mode: latex %%% TeX-master: "../upperbounds" %%% End: