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This study addresses a distributed optimization with a novel class of coupling of variables, called clique-wise coupling. A clique is a node set of a complete subgraph of an undirected graph. This setup is an extension of pairwise coupled…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-24 Yuto Watanabe , Kazunori Sakurama

We analyze the problem of identifying large cliques in graphs that are affected by adversarial uncertainty. More specifically, we consider a new formulation, namely the adversarial maximum clique problem, which extends the classical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Immanuel Bomze , Chiara Faccio , Francesco Rinaldi , Giovanni Spisso

We study the planted clique problem in which a clique of size k is planted in an Erdos-Renyi graph G(n,1/2) and one is interested in recovering this planted clique. It is widely believed that it exhibits a statistical-computational gap when…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Jay Mardia , Hilal Asi , Kabir Aladin Chandrasekher

We consider the routing flow shop problem with two machines on an asymmetric network. For this problem we discuss properties of an optimal schedule and present a polynomial time algorithm assuming the number of nodes of the network to be…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Ilya Chernykh , Alexander Kononov , Sergey Sevastyanov

A clique transversal in a graph is a set of vertices intersecting all maximal cliques. The problem of determining the minimum size of a clique transversal has received considerable attention in the literature. In this paper, we initiate the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-14 Martin Milanič , Yushi Uno

This paper studies the scheduling of jobs of different families on parallel machines with qualification constraints. Originating from semiconductor manufacturing, this constraint imposes a time threshold between the execution of two jobs of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Margaux Nattaf , Arnaud Malapert

Semidefinite Programming (SDP) provides tight lower bounds for Optimal Power Flow problems. However, solving large-scale SDP problems requires exploiting sparsity. In this paper, we experiment several clique decomposition algorithms that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-20 Julie Sliwak , Miguel Anjos , Lucas Létocart , Jean Maeght , Emiliano Traversi

Clique-width is one of the graph complexity measures leading to polynomial special-case algorithms for generally NP-complete problems, e.g. graph colourability. The best two currently known algorithms for verifying c-colourability of graphs…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Bruno Courcelle , Irène Durand , Michael Raskin

Since its first use by Euler on the problem of the seven bridges of K\"onigsberg, graph theory has shown excellent abilities in solving and unveiling the properties of multiple discrete optimization problems. The study of the structure of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Ahmed Douik , Hayssam Dahrouj , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

In this article we use the modular decomposition technique for exact solving the weighted maximum clique problem. Our algorithm takes the modular decomposition tree from the paper of Tedder et. al. and finds solution recursively. Also, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-12 Irina Utkina

This paper addresses the problem of enumerating all supported efficient solutions for a linear multi-objective integer minimum cost flow problem (MOIMCF). It derives an output-polynomial time algorithm to determine all supported efficient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-02 David Könen , Michael Stiglmayr

Finding a maximum clique in a given graph is one of the fundamental NP-hard problems. We compare two multi-core thread-parallel adaptations of a state-of-the-art branch and bound algorithm for the maximum clique problem, and provide a novel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-09-05 Ciaran McCreesh , Patrick Prosser

In the well known planted clique problem, a clique (or alternatively, an independent set) of size $k$ is planted at random in an Erdos-Renyi random $G(n, p)$ graph, and the goal is to design an algorithm that finds the maximum clique (or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Uriel Feige , Vadim Grinberg

The orbit problem is at the heart of symmetry reduction methods for model checking concurrent systems. It asks whether two given configurations in a concurrent system (represented as finite strings over some finite alphabet) are in the same…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-11-17 Anthony Widjaja Lin , Sanming Zhou

Finding complete subgraphs in a graph, that is, cliques, is a key problem and has many real-world applications, e.g., finding communities in social networks, clustering gene expression data, modeling ecological niches in food webs, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-01 Melisew Tefera Belachew , Nicolas Gillis

We study the Maximum Balanced Biclique (MBB) problem: Given a bipartite graph $G$ with $n$ vertices on each side, find a balanced biclique in $G$ with maximum size. We give a polynomial-time $\left(\frac{n}{\widetilde{\Omega}\left((\log…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Pasin Manurangsi

Network flow interdiction analysis studies by how much the value of a maximum flow in a network can be diminished by removing components of the network constrained to some budget. Although this problem is strongly NP-complete on general…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-01-14 Rico Zenklusen

We study the complexity of Maximum Clique in intersection graphs of convex objects in the plane. On the algorithmic side, we extend the polynomial-time algorithm for unit disks [Clark '90, Raghavan and Spinrad '03] to translates of any…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Édouard Bonnet , Nicolas Grelier , Tillmann Miltzow

We investigate the complexity and approximability of the budget-constrained minimum cost flow problem, which is an extension of the traditional minimum cost flow problem by a second kind of costs associated with each edge, whose total value…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-07-11 Michael Holzhauser , Sven O. Krumke , Clemens Thielen

We address the problem of enumerating all maximal clique-partitions of an undirected graph and present an algorithm based on the observation that every maximal clique-partition can be produced from the maximal clique-cover of the graph by…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Mircea Marin , Temur Kutsia , Cleo Pau , Mikheil Rukhaia