An algorithm for finding a maximum clique in a graph

  • Authors:
  • David R Wood

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University, Wellington Road, Clayton VIC 3168, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Operations Research Letters
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

This paper introduces a branch-and-bound algorithm for the maximum clique problem which applies existing clique finding and vertex coloring heuristics to determine lower and upper bounds for the size of a maximum clique. Computational results on a variety of graphs indicate the proposed procedure in most instances outperforms leading algorithms.