Approximating minimum cocolorings

  • Authors:
  • Fedor V. Fomin;Dieter Kratsch;Jean-Christophe Novelli

  • Affiliations:
  • Heinz Nixdorf Institute, University of Paderborn, Fürstenallee 11, D-33102 Paderborn, Germany;Laboratoire d'Informatique Théorique et Appliquée, Université de Metz, 57045 Metz Cedex 01, France;LIFL, Université Lille 1, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France

  • Venue:
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  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

A cocoloring of a graph G is a partition of the vertex set of G such that each set of the partition is either a clique or an independent set in G. Some special cases of the minimum cocoloring problem are of particular interest.We provide polynomial-time algorithms to approximate a minimum cocoloring on graphs, partially ordered sets and sequences. In particular, we obtain an efficient algorithm to approximate within a factor of 1.71 a minimum partition of a partially ordered set into chains and antichains, and a minimum partition of a sequence into increasing and decreasing subsequences.