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Solving the minimum sum coloring problem via binary quadratic programming

Data Structures and Algorithms 2013-04-23 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

In recent years, binary quadratic programming (BQP) has been successively applied to solve several combinatorial optimization problems. We consider in this paper a study of using the BQP model to solve the minimum sum coloring problem (MSCP). For this purpose, we recast the MSCP with a quadratic model which is then solved via a recently proposed Path Relinking (PR) algorithm designed for the general BQP. Based on a set of MSCP benchmark instances, we investigate the performance of this solution approach compared with existing methods.

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@article{arxiv.1304.5876,
  title  = {Solving the minimum sum coloring problem via binary quadratic programming},
  author = {Yang Wang and Jin-Kao Hao and Fred Glover and Zhipeng Lü},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.5876},
  year   = {2013}
}

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Short pre-print

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