Title
New Lower Bound for the Minimum Sum Coloring Problem.
Abstract
The Minimum Sum Coloring Problem (MSCP) is an NP-Hard problem derived from the graph coloring problem (GCP) and has practical applications in different domains such as VLSI design, distributed resource allocation, and scheduling. There exist few exact solutions for MSCP, probably due to its search space much more elusive than that of GCP. On the contrary, much effort is spent in the literature to develop upper and lower bounds for MSCP. In this paper, we borrow a notion called motif, that was used in a recent work for upper bounding the minimum number of colors in an optimal solution of MSCP, to develop a new algebraic lower bound called LBM Sigma for MSCP. Experiments on standard benchmarks for MSCP and GCP show that LBM Sigma is substantially better than the existing lower bounds for several families of graphs.
Year
Venue
Field
2017
THIRTY-FIRST AAAI CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Complete coloring,Graph,Mathematical optimization,Combinatorics,Fractional coloring,Upper and lower bounds,Computer science,Heuristics,Coloring problem
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
1
0.35
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Clément Lecat110.69
Corinne Lucet2998.51
Chu Min Li3119485.65