Minimum sum set coloring of trees and line graphs of trees

  • Authors:
  • Flavia Bonomo;Guillermo Durán;Javier Marenco;Mario Valencia-Pabon

  • Affiliations:
  • CONICET, Argentina and Departamento de Computación, FCEN, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina;CONICET, Argentina and Departamento de Matemática, FCEN, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina and Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial, FCFM, Universidad de Chile, Chile;Instituto de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina and Departamento de Computación, FCEN, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina;LIPN, Université Paris-Nord, France

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this paper, we study the minimum sum set coloring (MSSC) problem which consists in assigning a set of x(v) positive integers to each vertex v of a graph so that the intersection of sets assigned to adjacent vertices is empty and the sum of the assigned set of numbers to each vertex of the graph is minimum. The MSSC problem occurs in two versions: non-preemptive and preemptive. We show that the MSSC problem is strongly NP-hard both in the preemptive case on trees and in the non-preemptive case in line graphs of trees. Finally, we give exact parameterized algorithms for these two versions on trees and line graphs of trees.