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Solving vertex coloring problems as maximum weight stable set problems
No full textIn 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 Cornaz and Jost (2008), where given a graph G, an auxiliary graph Gˆ is constructed, such that the family of all stable sets of Gˆ is in one-to-one correspondence with the family of all feasible colorings of G. The transformation in Cornaz and Jost (2008) was originally proposed for the classical Vertex Coloring and the Max-Coloring problems; we extend it to the Equitable Coloring Problem and the Bin Packing Problem with Conflicts. We discuss the relation between the Maximum Weight Stable formulation and a polynomial-size formulation for the VCP, proposed by Campêlo et al. (2008) and called the Representative formulation. We report extensive computational experiments on benchmark instances of the four problems, and compare the solution method with the state-of-the-art algorithms. By exploiting the proposed method, we largely outperform the state-of-the-art algorithm for the Max-coloring Problem, and we are able to solve, for the first time to proven optimality, 14 Max-coloring and 2 Equitable Coloring instances
Immita Cornaz Maria — L'emploi à temps partiel
No full textD. N. Immita Cornaz Maria — L'emploi à temps partiel. In: Population, 25ᵉ année, n°2, 1970. p. 444
Immita Cornaz Maria — L'emploi à temps partiel
No full textD. N. Immita Cornaz Maria — L'emploi à temps partiel. In: Population, 25ᵉ année, n°2, 1970. p. 444
Cornaz Maria Immita — Travail professionnel de la mère et vie familiale
No full textD. N. Cornaz Maria Immita — Travail professionnel de la mère et vie familiale. In: Population, 21ᵉ année, n°6, 1966. p. 1232
A note on selective line-graphs and partition colorings
No full textWe extend a one-to-one correspondence between the set of all colorings of any graph and the set of all stable sets of an auxiliary graph, from graphs to partitioned graphs. This correspondence has an application to Selective Coloring and to Selective Max-Coloring
The sandwich line-graph
No full textWe observe that View the MathML source for any graph G with n vertices, where View the MathML source is any acyclic orientation of G and where View the MathML source is the (complement of the) auxiliary line graph introduced in [Cornaz, D., and Jost, V., A one-to-one correspondence between colorings and stable sets, Operations Research Letters 36 (2008), 673–676]. (Where as usual, ω and χ denote the clique number and the chromatic number.) It follows that, for any graph parameter β(G) sandwiched between ω(G) and χ(G), then View the MathML source is sandwiched between ω(G) and χ(G) too. Numerical experiments show that Φtheta is closer to χ than theta, where theta is Lovász theta functionou
The vertex k-cut problem
No full textGiven an undirected graph G=(V,E), a vertex k-cut of G is a vertex subset of V the removing of which disconnects the graph in at least k components. Given a graph G and an integer k≥2, the vertex k-cut problem consists in finding a vertex k-cut of G of minimum cardinality. We first prove that the problem is NP-hard for any fixed k≥3. We then present a compact formulation, and an extended formulation from which we derive a column generation and a branching scheme. Extensive computational results prove the effectiveness of the proposed methods
MeSH term explosion and author rank improve expert recommendations
No full textInformation overload is an often-cited phenomenon that reduces the productivity, efficiency and efficacy of scientists. One challenge for scientists is to find appropriate collaborators in their research. The literature describes various solutions to the problem of expertise location, but most current approaches do not appear to be very suitable for expert recommendations in biomedical research. In this study, we present the development and initial evaluation of a vector space model-based algorithm to calculate researcher similarity using four inputs: 1) MeSH terms of publications; 2) MeSH terms and author rank; 3) exploded MeSH terms; and 4) exploded MeSH terms and author rank. We developed and evaluated the algorithm using a data set of 17,525 authors and their 22,542 papers. On average, our algorithms correctly predicted 2.5 of the top 5/10 coauthors of individual scientists. Exploded MeSH and author rank outperformed all other algorithms in accuracy, followed closely by MeSH and author rank. Our results show that the accuracy of MeSH term-based matching can be enhanced with other metadata such as author rank
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
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