Graph theoretic generalizations of clique: optimization and extensions
Graph theoretic generalizations of clique: optimization and extensions
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派系的图论概括:优化和扩展
DOI:
10.1007/bf02019432
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发表时间:
2009
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0.8
通讯作者:
Balabhaskar Balasundaram
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作者:
Balabhaskar Balasundaram
Graph Theoretic Generalizations of Clique: Optimization and Extensions. (August 2007) Balabhaskar Balasundaram, B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology – Madras Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Sergiy Butenko This dissertation considers graph theoretic generalizations of the maximum clique problem. Models that were originally proposed in social network analysis literature, are investigated from a mathematical programming perspective for the first time. A social network is usually represented by a graph, and cliques were the first models of “tightly knit groups” in social networks, referred to as cohesive subgroups. Cliques are idealized models and their overly restrictive nature motivated the development of clique relaxations that relax different aspects of a clique. Identifying large cohesive subgroups in social networks has traditionally been used in criminal network analysis to study organized crimes such as terrorism, narcotics and money laundering. More recent applications are in clustering and data mining wireless networks, biological networks as well as graph models of databases and the internet. This research has the potential to impact homeland security, bioinformatics, internet research and telecommunication industry among others. The focus of this dissertation is a degree-based relaxation called k-plex. A distance-based relaxation called k-clique and a diameter-based relaxation called kclub are also investigated in this dissertation. We present the first systematic study of the complexity aspects of these problems and application of mathematical programming techniques in solving them. Graph theoretic properties of the models are identified and used in the development of theory and algorithms. Optimization problems associated with the three models are formulated as bi-