An approximation result for the interval coloring problem on claw-free chordal graphs

  • Authors:
  • Giuseppe Confessore;Paolo Dell'Olmo;Stefano Giordani

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemi e Produzione, Università di Roma "Tor Vergata", Roma, Italy and Istituto di Tecnologie Industriali e Automazione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Mila ...;Dipartimento di Probabilità, Statistica e Statistiche Applicate, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Roma, Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemi e Produzione, Università di Roma "Tor Vergata", Roma, Italy and Centro Interdipartimentale "Vito Volterra", Università di Roma "Tor Vergata", Roma, I ...

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics - Sixth Twente Workshop on Graphs and Combinatorial Optimization
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We study the problem of finding an acyclic orientation of an undirected graph, such that each (oriented) path is covered by a limited number k of maximal cliques. This is equivalent to finding a k-approximate solution for the interval coloring problem on a graph. We focus our attention on claw-free chordal graphs, and show how to find an orientation of such a graph in linear time, which guarantees that each path is covered by at most two maximal cliques. This extends previous published results on other graph classes where stronger assumptions were made.