Local search: Is brute-force avoidable?

Michael R. Fellows, Fedor V. Fomin, Daniel Lokshtanov, Frances A. Rosamond, Saket Saurabh, Yngve Villanger. Local search: Is brute-force avoidable?. J. Comput. Syst. Sci., 78(3):707-719, 2012. [doi]

@article{FellowsFLRSV12,
  title = {Local search: Is brute-force avoidable?},
  author = {Michael R. Fellows and Fedor V. Fomin and Daniel Lokshtanov and Frances A. Rosamond and Saket Saurabh and Yngve Villanger},
  year = {2012},
  doi = {10.1016/j.jcss.2011.10.003},
  url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcss.2011.10.003},
  researchr = {https://researchr.org/publication/FellowsFLRSV12},
  cites = {0},
  citedby = {0},
  journal = {J. Comput. Syst. Sci.},
  volume = {78},
  number = {3},
  pages = {707-719},
}