Vertex coloring problem is a well-known NP-Hard problem where the objective is to minimize the number of colors used to color vertices of a graph ensuring that adjacent vertices cannot have same color. In this paper, we first discuss existing mathematical formulations of the problem and then consider two different heuristics, namely HEUR-RA and HEUR-RC, based on Lagrangian relaxation of adjacency and coloring constraints. HEUR-RA does not require solving any optimization problem through execution whereas at each iteration of HEUR-RC another NP-Hard problem, maximal weight stable set problem, is solved. We conduct experiments to observe computational performances of these heuristics. The experiments reveal that although it requires longer running times, HEUR-RC outperforms HEUR-RA since it provides lower optimal gaps as well as upper bound information.
Birincil Dil | İngilizce |
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Bölüm | Engineering Sciences |
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Yayımlanma Tarihi | 25 Haziran 2020 |
Gönderilme Tarihi | 2 Ekim 2019 |
Kabul Tarihi | 15 Haziran 2020 |
Yayımlandığı Sayı | Yıl 2020 Cilt: 41 Sayı: 2 |