Title
How hard is it to determine if a graph has a 2-role assignment?
Abstract
Role assignments, introduced by Everett and Borgatti [2], who called them role colorings, formalize the idea, arising in the theory of social networks, that individuals of the same social role will relate in the same way to the individuals playing counterpart roles. If G is a graph, a k-role assignment is a function r mapping the vertex set onto the set of integers {1,2,..., k} so that if r(x) = r(y) then the sets of roles assigned to the neighbors of x and y are the same. We ask how hard it is to determine if a graph has a 2-role assignment and show that recognizing if a graph has a 2-role assignment is NP-complete. (C) 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Year
DOI
Venue
2001
10.1002/1097-0037(200103)37:2<67::AID-NET1>3.0.CO;2-9
NETWORKS
Keywords
Field
DocType
social networks,social role,role assignment,role coloring,NP-completeness
Combinatorics,Forbidden graph characterization,Graph power,Graph factorization,Graph labeling,Regular graph,Null graph,Mathematics,Voltage graph,Complement graph
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
37
2
0028-3045
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
15
1.85
1
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fred S. Roberts152785.71
Li Sheng2204.67