A Maximum Edge-Weight Clique Extraction Algorithm Based on Branch-and-Bound

10/24/2018

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by   Satoshi Shimizu, et al.

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The maximum edge-weight clique problem is to find a clique whose sum of edge-weight is the maximum for a given edge-weighted undirected graph. The problem is NP-hard and some branch-and-bound algorithms have been proposed. In this paper, we propose a new exact algorithm based on branch-and-bound. It assigns edge-weights to vertices and calculates upper bounds using vertex coloring. By some computational experiments, we confirmed our algorithm is faster than previous algorithms.