Polyhedral results for the Equitable Coloring Problem

In this work we study the polytope associated with a 0/1 integer programming formulation for the Equitable Coloring Problem. We find several families of valid inequalities and derive sufficient conditions in order to be facet-defining inequalities. We also present computational evidence of the effectiveness of including these inequalities as cuts in a Branch & Cut algorithm

A polyhedral approach for the Equitable Coloring Problem

In this work we study the polytope associated with a 0,1-integer programming formulation for the Equitable Coloring Problem. We find several families of valid inequalities and derive sufficient conditions in order to be facet-defining inequalities. We also present computational evidence that shows the efficacy of these inequalities used in a cutting-plane algorithm

A DSATUR-based algorithm for the Equitable Coloring Problem

This paper describes a new exact algorithm for the Equitable Coloring Problem, a coloring problem where the sizes of two arbitrary color classes differ in at most one unit. Based on the well known DSatur algorithm for the classic Coloring Problem, a pruning criterion arising from equity constraints is proposed and analyzed. The good performance of the algorithm is shown through computational experiments over random and benchmark instances.Fil: Méndez-Díaz, Isabel. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Computación; ArgentinaFil: Nasini, Graciela Leonor. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Ingeniería y Agrimensura; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Severin, Daniel Esteban. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Ingeniería y Agrimensura; Argentin

A tabu search heuristic for the Equitable Coloring Problem

The Equitable Coloring Problem is a variant of the Graph Coloring Problem where the sizes of two arbitrary color classes differ in at most one unit. This additional condition, called equity constraints, arises naturally in several applications. Due to the hardness of the problem, current exact algorithms can not solve large-sized instances. Such instances must be addressed only via heuristic methods. In this paper we present a tabu search heuristic for the Equitable Coloring Problem. This algorithm is an adaptation of the dynamic TabuCol version of Galinier and Hao. In order to satisfy equity constraints, new local search criteria are given. Computational experiments are carried out in order to find the best combination of parameters involved in the dynamic tenure of the heuristic. Finally, we show the good performance of our heuristic over known benchmark instances

Systematic Literature Review Robust Graph Coloring on Electric Circuit Problems

Graph Coloring Problem (GCP) is the assignment of colors to certain elements in a graph based on certain constraints. GCP is used by assigning a color label to each node with neighboring nodes assigned a different color and the minimum number of colors used. Based on this, GCP can be drawn into an optimization problem that is to minimize the colors used. Optimization problems in graph coloring can occur due to uncertainty in the use of colors to be used, so it can be assumed that there is an uncertainty in the number of colored vertices. One of the mathematical optimization methods in the presence of uncertainty is Robust Optimization (RO). RO is a modeling methodology combined with computational tools to process optimization problems with uncertain data and only some data for which certainty is known. This paper will review research on Robust GCP with model validation to be applied to electrical circuit problems using a systematic review of the literature. A systematic literature review was carried out using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta Analysis (PRISMA) method. The keywords used in this study were used to search for articles related to this research using a database. Based on the results of the search for articles obtained from PRISMA and Bibliometric R Software, it was found that there was a relationship between the keywords Robust Optimization and Graph Coloring, this means that at least there is at least one researcher who has studied the problem. However, the Electricity keyword has no relation to the other two keywords, so that a gap is obtained and it is possible if the research has not been studied and discussed by other researchers. Based on the results of this study, it is hoped that it can be used as a consideration and a better solution to solve optimization problems