The critical node detection problem in networks: A survey

M Lalou, MA Tahraoui, H Kheddouci - Computer Science Review, 2018 - Elsevier
In networks, not all nodes have the same importance, and some are more important than
others. The issue of finding the most important nodes in networks has been addressed …

[PDF][PDF] A history of metaheuristics

K Sorensen, M Sevaux, F Glover - arxiv preprint arxiv:1704.00853, 2017 - arxiv.org
A History of Metaheuristics arxiv:1704.00853v1 [cs.AI] 4 Apr 2017 Page 1 A History of
Metaheuristics ∗ Kenneth Sörensen Marc Sevaux Fred Glover Abstract This chapter …

A fast tri-individual memetic search approach for the distance-based critical node problem

Y Zhou, G Wang, JK Hao, N Geng, Z Jiang - European Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The distance-based critical node problem involves identifying a subset of nodes in a graph
such that the removal of these nodes leads to a residual graph with the minimum distance …

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 …

A general evolutionary framework for different classes of critical node problems

R Aringhieri, A Grosso, P Hosteins… - … Applications of Artificial …, 2016 - Elsevier
We design a flexible Evolutionary Framework for solving several classes of the Critical Node
Problem (CNP), ie the maximal fragmentation of a graph through node deletion, given a …

Multi-objective optimization of critical node detection based on cascade model in complex networks

L Zhang, J **a, F Cheng, J Qiu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The critical node detection based on cascade model is a very important way for analyzing
network vulnerability and has recently attracted the attention of many researchers in …

Detecting critical nodes in sparse graphs via “reduce-solve-combine” memetic search

Y Zhou, J Li, JK Hao, F Glover - INFORMS Journal on …, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
This study considers a well-known critical node detection problem that aims to minimize a
pairwise connectivity measure of an undirected graph via the removal of a subset of nodes …

Variable population memetic search: A case study on the critical node problem

Y Zhou, JK Hao, ZH Fu, Z Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Population-based memetic algorithms have been successfully applied to solve many difficult
combinatorial problems. Often, a population of fixed size is used in such algorithms to record …

Multi-agent coalition formation by an efficient genetic algorithm with heuristic initialization and repair strategy

M Guo, B **n, J Chen, Y Wang - Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 2020 - Elsevier
In multi-agent systems (MAS), the coalition formation (CF) is an important problem focusing
on allocating agents to different tasks. In this paper, three specific CF problems are …

Efficient methods for the distance-based critical node detection problem in complex networks

GU Alozie, A Arulselvan, K Akartunalı… - Computers & Operations …, 2021 - Elsevier
An important problem in network survivability assessment is the identification of critical
nodes. The distance-based critical node detection problem addresses the issues of internal …