Note: A note on the problem of reporting maximal cliques

  • Authors:
  • F. Cazals;C. Karande

  • Affiliations:
  • INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France;Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Reporting the maximal cliques of a graph is a fundamental problem arising in many areas. This note bridges the gap between three papers addressing this problem: the original paper of Bron-Kerbosh [C. Bron, J. Kerbosch, Algorithm 457: Finding all cliques of an undirected graph, Communication of ACM 16 (9) (1973) 575-577], and two papers recently published in TCS, namely that of Tomita et al. [Tomita, A. Tanaka, H. Takahashi, The worst-case time complexity for generating all maximal cliques and computational experiments, Theoretical Computer Science 363 (1) (2006) 28-42], and that of Koch [I. Koch, Fundamental study: Enumerating all connected maximal common subgraphs in two graphs, Theoretical Computer Science 250 (1-2) (2001) 1-30]. In particular, we show that the strategy of Tomita et al. is a simple modification of the Bron-Kerbosch algorithm, based on an (un-exploited) observation raised in Koch's paper.