[PDF][PDF] Balance between Complexity and Quality: Local Search for Minimum Vertex Cover in Massive Graphs.

S Cai - IJCAI, 2015 - ijcai.org
The problem of finding a minimum vertex cover (MinVC) in a graph is a well known NP-hard
problem with important applications. There has been much interest in develo** heuristic …

Memetic search for identifying critical nodes in sparse graphs

Y Zhou, JK Hao, F Glover - IEEE transactions on cybernetics, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Critical node problems (CNPs) involve finding a set of critical nodes from a graph whose
removal results in optimizing a predefined measure over the residual graph. As useful …

Finding a small vertex cover in massive sparse graphs: Construct, local search, and preprocess

S Cai, J Lin, C Luo - Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2017 - jair.org
The problem of finding a minimum vertex cover (MinVC) in a graph is a well known NP-hard
combinatorial optimization problem of great importance in theory and practice. Due to its NP …

[PDF][PDF] Local Search with Efficient Automatic Configuration for Minimum Vertex Cover.

C Luo, HH Hoos, S Cai, Q Lin, H Zhang, D Zhang - IJCAI, 2019 - ada.liacs.leidenuniv.nl
Minimum vertex cover (MinVC) is a prominent NP-hard problem in artificial intelligence, with
considerable importance in applications. Local search solvers define the state of the art in …

NuMWVC: A novel local search for minimum weighted vertex cover problem

R Li, S Hu, S Cai, J Gao, Y Wang… - Journal of the Operational …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The problem of finding a minimum weighted vertex cover (MWVC) in a graph is a well-
known combinatorial optimisation problem with important applications. This article …

Efficient reductions and a fast algorithm of maximum weighted independent set

M **ao, S Huang, Y Zhou, B Ding - Proceedings of the Web Conference …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The maximum independent set problem is one of the most fundamental problems in graph
algorithms and has been widely studied in social networks. The weighted version of this …

An efficient local search framework for the minimum weighted vertex cover problem

R Li, S Hu, H Zhang, M Yin - Information Sciences, 2016 - Elsevier
The minimum weighted vertex cover (MWVC) problem, an extension of the classical
minimum vertex cover (MVC) problem, is an important NP-complete combinatorial …

A local search method based on edge age strategy for minimum vertex cover problem in massive graphs

C Quan, P Guo - Expert Systems with Applications, 2021 - Elsevier
Minimum vertex cover problem (MVC) is a classic combinatorial optimization problem, which
has many critical real-life applications in scheduling, VLSI design, artificial intelligence, and …

A local search algorithm with tabu strategy and perturbation mechanism for generalized vertex cover problem

R Li, S Hu, Y Wang, M Yin - Neural Computing and Applications, 2017 - Springer
The generalized vertex cover problem, an extension of classic minimum vertex cover
problem, is an important NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem with a wide range of …

HSMVS: heuristic search for minimum vertex separator on massive graphs

C Luo, S Guo - PeerJ Computer Science, 2024 - peerj.com
In graph theory, the problem of finding minimum vertex separator (MVS) is a classic NP-hard
problem, and it plays a key role in a number of important applications in practice. The real …