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Maximum Flow Network Interdiction Problem (MFNIP) is known to be strongly NP-hard problem. We solve a simple form of MFNIP in polynomial time. We review the reduction of MFNIP from the clique problem. We propose a polynomial time solution…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-02-11 Pawan Tamta , Bhagwati Prasad Pande , H. S Dhami

I present a single algorithm which solves the clique problems, "What is the largest size clique?", "What are all the maximal cliques?" and the decision problem, "Does a clique of size k exist?" for any given graph in polynomial time. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Michael LaPlante

The maximum clique problem is a classical NP-complete problem in graph theory and has important applications in many domains. In this paper we show, in a partially non-constructive way, the existence of an exact polynomial-time algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-20 R. Dharmarajan , D. Ramachandran

Cardinality Maximum Flow Network Interdiction Problem (CMFNIP) is known to be strongly NP-hard problem in the literature. A particular case of CMFNIP has been shown to have reduction from clique problem. In the present work,an effort is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-12-24 Pawan Tamta , Bhagwati Prasad Pande , H. S. Dhami

In this paper, we present a polynomial-time algorithm for the maximum clique problem, which implies P = NP. Our algorithm is based on a continuous game-theoretic representation of this problem and at its heart lies a discrete-time dynamical…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Ioannis Avramopoulos

This article focuses on a biobjective extension of the maximum flow network interdiction problem, where each arc in the network is associated with two capacity values. Two maximum flows from a source to a sink are to be computed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-09 Luca E. Schäfer , Stefan Ruzika , Sven O. Krumke , Carlos M. Fonseca

A clique in an undirected graph G= (V, E) is a subset V' V of vertices, each pair of which is connected by an edge in E. The clique problem is an optimization problem of finding a clique of maximum size in graph. The clique problem is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-10-04 Murali Krishna P , Sabu . M Thampi

The maximum clique problem is a well known NP-Hard problem with applications in data mining, network analysis, informatics, and many other areas. Although there exist several algorithms with acceptable runtimes for certain classes of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-11-15 Bharath Pattabiraman , Md. Mostofa Ali Patwary , Assefaw H. Gebremedhin , Wei-keng Liao , Alok Choudhary

Multiple interval graphs are variants of interval graphs where instead of a single interval, each vertex is assigned a set of intervals on the real line. We study the complexity of the MAXIMUM CLIQUE problem in several classes of multiple…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-03-12 Mathew C. Francis , Daniel Gonçalves , Pascal Ochem

The Clique Interdiction Problem (CIP) aims to minimize the size of the largest clique in a given graph by removing a given number of vertices. The CIP models a special Stackelberg game and has important applications in fields such as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Chenghao Zhu , Yi Zhou , Haoyu Jiang

The maximum clique problem is a well known NP-Hard problem with applications in data mining, network analysis, information retrieval and many other areas related to the World Wide Web. There exist several algorithms for the problem with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-01 Bharath Pattabiraman , Md. Mostofa Ali Patwary , Assefaw H. Gebremedhin , Wei-keng Liao , Alok Choudhary

In this paper we modify an algorithm for updating a maximal clique enumeration after an edge insertion to provide an algorithm that runs in linear time with respect to the number of cliques containing one of the edge's endpoints, whereas…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-12-17 Neal Lawton

In this work, we critique two papers, "A Polynomial-Time Solution to the Clique Problem" by Tamta, Pande, and Dhami, and "A Polynomial-Time Algorithm For Solving Clique Problems" by LaPlante. We summarize and analyze both papers, noting…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-04-28 Hector A. Cardenas , Chester Holtz , Maria Janczak , Philip Meyers , Nathaniel S. Potrepka

We are given a graph $G$ with $n$ vertices, where a random subset of $k$ vertices has been made into a clique, and the remaining edges are chosen independently with probability $\tfrac12$. This random graph model is denoted…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-10-15 Yael Dekel , Ori Gurel-Gurevich , Yuval Peres

Many combinatorial optimization problems are often considered intractable to solve exactly or by approximation. An example of such problem is maximum clique which -- under standard assumptions in complexity theory -- cannot be solved in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Tapani Toivonen

The maximal clique problem, to find the maximally sized clique in a given graph, is classically an NP-complete computational problem, which has potential applications ranging from electrical engineering, computational chemistry,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Weng-Long Chang , Qi Yu , Zhaokai Li , Jiahui Chen , Xinhua Peng , Mang Feng

The maximum labelled clique problem is a variant of the maximum clique problem where edges in the graph are given labels, and we are not allowed to use more than a certain number of distinct labels in a solution. We introduce a new…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Ciaran McCreesh , Patrick Prosser

Finding the maximum clique is a known NP-Complete problem and it is also hard to approximate. This work proposes two efficient algorithms to obtain it. Nevertheless, the first one is able to fins the maximum for some special cases, while…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-02-21 José Ignacio Alvarez-Hamelin

This manuscript provides a comprehensive review of the Maximum Clique Problem, a computational problem that involves finding subsets of vertices in a graph that are all pairwise adjacent to each other. The manuscript covers in a simple way…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Raffaele Marino , Lorenzo Buffoni , Bogdan Zavalnij

The maximum clique (MC) problem is a challenging graph mining problem which, due to its NP-hard nature, can take a substantial amount of execution time. The MC problem is dominated by set intersection operations similar to Maximal Clique…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Hans Vandierendonck
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