We consider the sum coloring (chromatic sum) and sum multi-coloring problems for restricted families of graphs. In particular, we consider the graph classes of proper intersection graphs of axis-parallel rectangles, proper interval graphs, and unit disk graphs. All the above mentioned graph classes belong to a more general graph class of (k+1)clawfree graphs (respectively, for k = 4, 2, 5). We ...

The question of what global information must distributed rational agents a-priori know aboutthe network in order for equilibrium to be possible is researched here. Until now, distributedalgorithms with rational agents have assumed that n, the size of the network, is a-priori known tothe participants. We investigate the above question, considering different distributed computingp...

In a previous work, we proposed a new integer programming formulation for the graph coloring problem which, to a certain extent, avoids symmetry. We studied the facet structure of the 0/1-polytope associated with it. Based on these theoretical results, we present now a Branch-and-Cut algorithm for the graph coloring problem. Our computational experiences compare favorably with the well-known ex...

Graph coloring has been studied for a long time and continues to receive interest within the research community [43]. It has applications in scheduling [46], timetables, and compiler register allocation [45]. The most popular variant of graph coloring, k-coloring, can be thought of as an assignment of k colors to the vertices of a graph such that adjacent vertices are assigned different colors....

Given a graph G = (V,E) and positive integral vertex weights w : V → N, the max-coloring problem seeks to find a proper vertex coloring of G whose color classes C1, C2, . . . , Ck, minimize ∑k i=1 maxv∈Ciw(v). The problem arises in scheduling conflicting jobs in batches and in minimizing buffer size in dedicated memory managers. In this paper we present three approximation algorithms and one in...

For positive integers k and r , a (k, r)-coloring of a graphG is a proper coloring of the vertices with k colors such that every vertex of degree i will be adjacent to vertices with at least min{i, r} different colors. The r-dynamic chromatic number of G, denoted by χr (G), is the smallest integer k for which G has a (k, r)-coloring. For a k-list assignment L to vertices of G, an (L, r)-colorin...

In Vertex Coloring Problems, one is required to assign a color to each vertex of an undirected graph in such a way that adjacent vertices receive different colors, and the objective is to minimize the cost of the used colors. In this work we solve four different coloring problems formulated as Maximum Weight Stable Set Problems on an associated graph. We exploit the transformation proposed by C...