- Naomi Nishimura, Prabhakar Ragde, Dimitrios Thilikos, ``Parameterized counting algorithms for general graph covering problems", Proceedings of the Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures (WADS 2005), August 2005.
- Arvind Gupta, Naomi Nishimura, Andrzej Proskurowski, and
Prabhakar Ragde, ``Embeddings of k-connected graphs of pathwidth k", Discrete Applied Mathematics, 145(2): 242-265, 2005.
- Erik D. Demaine, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, Naomi
Nishimura, Prabhakar Ragde, and Dimitrios M. Thilikos, ``Approximation
algorithms for classes of graphs excluding single-crossing graphs as
minors", Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 69:166-195, 2004.
- Michael R. Fellows, Christian Knauer, Naomi Nishimura, Prabhakar Ragde, Frances Rosamond,
Ulrike Stege, Dimitrios M. Thilikos, and Sue Whitesides, ``Faster fixed-parameter
tractable algorithms for matching and packing problems",
Proceedings of the 12th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms
(ESA 2004), September 2004.
- Naomi Nishimura, Prabhakar Ragde, and Dimitrios Thilikos, ``Smaller
kernels for
hitting set problems of constant arity", Proceedings of the
International Workshop on Parameterized Complexity and Exact
Computation (IWPEC 2004), September 2004.
- Naomi Nishimura, Prabhakar Ragde, and Stefan Szeider, ``Detecting
backdoor
sets for Horn and binary clauses", Proceedings of the Seventh
International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability
Testing (SAT 2004), May 2004.
- Henning Fernau, Torben Hagerup, Naomi Nishimura, Prabhakar Ragde, and
K. Reinhardt, ``On the parameterized complexity of a generalized Rush
Hour puzzle", Proceedings of the 15th Canadian Conference on
Computational Geometry (CCCG 2003), 2003.
- MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi and Naomi Nishimura, ``Subgraph isomorphism,
log-bounded fragmentation and graphs of (locally) bounded
treewidth," Proceedings of the 27th International
Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer
Science (MFCS 2002), 2002, pp. 305-318.
- Naomi Nishimura, Prabhakar Ragde, and Dimitrios
M. Thilikos, ``On graph powers for leaf-labeled trees",
Journal of Algorithms, 42:69-108, 2002.
- Vida Dujmovic, Michael Fellows, Michael Hallett, Matthew Kitching, Giuseppe Liotta,
Catherine McCartin, Naomi Nishimura, Prabhakar Ragde, Frances Rosemand, Matthew Suderman,
Sue Whitesides, and David R. Wood, ``A fixed-parameter approach to
two-layer planarization," Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD 2001), September 2001, pp. 1-15.
- MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, Naomi Nishimura, Prabhakar Ragde, and
Dimitrios M. Thilikos, ``Fast approximation schemes for
K_{3,3}-minor-free or K_5-minor-free graphs", EuroConference
"Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Applications (COMB01), 2001
- Naomi Nishimura, Prabhakar Ragde, and Dimitrios M. Thilikos,
``Fast fixed-parameter tractable algorithms for nontrivial
generalizations of vertex cover", Workshop on Algorithms and Data
Structures (WADS 2001), 2001.
- Vida Dujmovic, Michael Fellows, Michael Hallett, Matthew Kitching, Giuseppe Liotta,
Catherine McCartin, Naomi Nishimura, Prabhakar Ragde, Frances Rosemand, Matthew Suderman,
Sue Whitesides, and David R. Wood, ``On the parameterized complexity of
layered graph drawing," Proceedings of the 9th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2001), August 2001, pp. 488-499.
- Naomi Nishimura, Prabhakar Ragde, and Dimitrios M. Thilikos,
``Finding smallest supertrees under minor containment", International
Journal of Foundations of Computer Science, 11(3):445-465, 2000.
- Torben Hagerup, Jyrki Katajainen, Naomi Nishimura, and Prabhakar
Ragde, ``Characterizing multiterminal flow networks and computing
flows in networks of bounded treewidth,'' Journal of Computer and
System Sciences, 57 (3):366-375, December 1998.
- Arvind Gupta and Naomi Nishimura, ``Finding largest subtrees and
smallest supertrees,'' Algorithmica, 21:183-210, 1998.
- Lata Narayanan and Naomi Nishimura, ``Interval routing on
k-trees,'' Journal of Algorithms, 26 (2): 325-369, 1998.
- Patrick Dymond, Faith E. Fich, Naomi Nishimura, Prabhakar Ragde,
and Walter L. Ruzzo, ``Pointers versus Arithmetic in PRAMs,''
Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 53(2):218-232, October 1996.
- Arvind Gupta and Naomi Nishimura, ``The complexity of subgraph
isomorphism for classes of partial k-trees,'' Theoretical Computer
Science, 164:287--298, August 1996.
- Peter A. Buhr, Anil K. Goel, Naomi Nishimura, and Prabhakar Ragde,
``uDatabase: Parallelism in a Memory-Mapped Environment,''
Proceedings of the Eighth Annual ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms
and Architectures (SPAA 1996), June 1996, pp. 196-199.
- Peter A. Buhr, Anil K. Goel, Naomi Nishimura, and Prabhakar Ragde,
``Parallel pointer-based join algorithms in memory-mapped
environments,'' Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference
on Data Engineering (ICDE 1996), February 1996, pp. 266-275.
- Arvind Gupta and Naomi Nishimura, ``Characterizing the complexity of
subgraph isomorphism for graphs of bounded path-width,'' Proceedings
of the 13th Annual Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer
Science (STACS 1996), February 1996, pp. 453-465.
- Naomi Nishimura, ``Efficient Asynchronous Simulation of a Class
of Synchronous Parallel Algorithms,'' Journal of Computer and System
Science, 50 (1):98-113, February 1995.
- Arvind Gupta and Naomi Nishimura, ``The parallel complexity of tree
embedding problems,'' Journal of Algorithms, 18 (1):176-200, January
1995.
- Arvind Gupta and Naomi Nishimura, ``Sequential and parallel algorithms
for embedding problems on classes of partial k-trees,'' Proceedings
of the 4th Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory (SWAT 1994), pp. 172-182,
1994.
- Naomi Nishimura, ``A Model for Asynchronous Shared Memory Parallel
Computation,'' SIAM Journal on Computing, 23 (6):1231--1252, December
1994.
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