Combinatorial optimization: algorithms and complexity
Combinatorial optimization: algorithms and complexity
Operations Research
A still better performance guarantee for approximate graph coloring
Information Processing Letters
Scheduling with incompatible jobs
Discrete Applied Mathematics
Approximate graph coloring by semidefinite programming
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
On chromatic sums and distributed resource allocation
Information and Computation
Master-Slave Strategy and Polynomial Approximation
Computational Optimization and Applications
Approximation algorithms
Graph Algorithms
Complexity and Approximation: Combinatorial Optimization Problems and Their Approximability Properties
A priori optimization for the probabilistic maximum independent set problem
Theoretical Computer Science
Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness
Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness
Weighted Node Coloring: When Stable Sets Are Expensive
WG '02 Revised Papers from the 28th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science
Approximation algorithms for combinatorial problems
Journal of Computer and System Sciences
Vertex-Uncertainty in Graph-Problems
COCOA 2008 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications
Steiner forests on stochastic metric graphs
COCOA'07 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Combinatorial optimization and applications
"Rent-or-buy" scheduling and cost coloring problems
FSTTCS'07 Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Foundations of software technology and theoretical computer science
On the probabilistic min spanning tree Problem
Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms
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We study a robustness model for the minimum coloring problem, where any vertex v"i of the input-graph G(V,E) has some presence probability p"i. We show that, under this model, the original coloring problem gives rise to a new coloring version (called Probabilistic Min Coloring) where the objective becomes to determine a partition of V into independent sets S"1,S"2,...,S"k, that minimizes the quantity @?"i"="1^kf(S"i), where, for any independent set S"i,i=1,...,k, f(S"i)=1-@?"v"""j"@?"S"""i(1-p"j). We show that Probabilistic Min Coloring is NP-hard and design a polynomial time approximation algorithm achieving non-trivial approximation ratio. We then focus ourselves on probabilistic coloring of bipartite graphs and show that the problem of determining the best k-coloring (called Probabilistic Min k-Coloring) is NP-hard, for any k=3. We finally study Probabilistic Min Coloring and Probabilistic Min k-Coloring in a particular family of bipartite graphs that plays a crucial role in the proof of the NP-hardness result just mentioned, and in complements of bipartite graphs.