FPT-algorithms and their classification on the base of elasticity

We give a brief overview of the results and problems of parameterized algorithmics as the new direction of computational complexity theory. For a parameterized algorithm, we offer a new indicator of computational complexity which can be used to measure the growth rate of its complexity function depending on many variables. This indicator is a partial elasticity of the complexity function. We offer a two-dimensional classification of parameterized algorithms with the complexity function having a multiplicative form of presentation.