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Graph theory experienced a remarkable increase of interest among the scientific community during the last decades. The vertex coloring problem (Min Coloring) deserves a particular attention rince it has been able to capture a wide variety of applications. ...
In today's largest open environment, the World Wide Web, human-to-computer interactions are predominant. The natural evolution envisioned by many people is towards a Web in which the majority of interactions will be computer-to-computer. This has certain b ...
The common point between the different chapters of the present work is graph theory. We investigate some well known graph theory problems, and some which arise from more specific applications. In the first chapter, we deal with the maximum stable set probl ...
We consider vertex k-colorings of an arbitrary simple, connected, and undirected graph G=(V,E) such that, for every vertex v, at most lambda different colors occur in the closed neighborhood of v. These colorings are called (k,lambda)-colorings. If a graph ...
Graph Coloring is a very active field of research in graph theory as well as in the domain of the design of efficient heuristics to solve problems which, due to their computational complexity, cannot be solved exactly (no guarantee that an optimal solution ...
We consider a multicast configuration with two sources, and translate the network code design problem to vertex coloring of an appropriately defined graph. This observation enables to derive code design algorithms and alphabet size bounds, as well as estab ...
Evolving large phenotypes remains nowadays a problem due to the combinatorial explosion of the search space. Seeking better scalability and inspired by the development of biological systems several indirect genetic encodings have been proposed. Here two di ...
The problems associated with computerized search tools in online product search environments are discussed. The application of the Utility Theory, using a tool for the travel planning domain is illustrated. The features of Isy-Travel, a tool based on Smart ...
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Local search algorithms have been very successful for solving constraint satisfaction problems (CSP). However, a major weakness has been that local search is unable to detect unsolvability and is thus not suitable for highly constrained or overconstrained ...
We consider the problem of partitioning the node set of a graph into p cliques and k stable sets, namely the (p,k)-coloring problem. Results have been obtained for general graphs \cite{hellcomp}, chordal graphs \cite{hellchordal} and cacti for the case whe ...
