A unified algorithm for colouring graphs of bounded clique-width

08/17/2020
by   Bruno Courcelle, et al.
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Clique-width is one of the graph complexity measures leading to polynomial special-case algorithms for generally NP-complete problems, e.g. graph colourability. The best two currently known algorithms for verifying c-colourability of graphs represented as clique-width terms are optimised towards two different extreme cases, a constant number of colours and a very large number of colours. We present a way to unify these approaches in a single relatively simple algorithm that achieves the state of the art complexity in both cases. The unified algorithm also provides a speed-up for a large number of colours.

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