An adaptive multistart tabu search approach to solve the maximum clique problem

  • Authors:
  • Qinghua Wu;Jin-Kao Hao

  • Affiliations:
  • LERIA, Université d'Angers, Angers Cedex 01, France 49045;LERIA, Université d'Angers, Angers Cedex 01, France 49045

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Combinatorial Optimization
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Given an undirected graph G=(V,E) with vertex set V={1,驴,n} and edge set E驴V脳V. The maximum clique problem is to determine in G a clique (i.e., a complete subgraph) of maximum cardinality. This paper presents an effective algorithm for the maximum clique problem. The proposed multistart tabu search algorithm integrates a constrained neighborhood, a dynamic tabu tenure mechanism and a long term memory based restart strategy. Our proposed algorithm is evaluated on the whole set of 80 DIMACS challenge benchmarks and compared with five state-of-the-art algorithms. Computational results show that our proposed algorithm attains the largest known clique for 79 benchmarks.