On the Computational Complexity of Problems: Formalizing Sensitivity to Uncertainty and Parametric Complexity Classes
Worst-case analysis, the setting of the $P \stackrel{?}{=} NP$ question, measures the cost of a problem as a function of input size alone. Yet problems that are exponential in general often become polynomial, even linear, once a checkable property of the input is known: Partition, for instance, is decidable in linear t...