Heuristic Colour Assignment Strategies for Merge Models in Graph Colouring

In this paper, we combine a powerful representation for graph colouring problems with different heuristic strategies for colour assignment. Our novel strategies employ heuristics that exploit information about the partial colouring in an aim to improve performance. An evolutionary algorithm is used to drive the search. We compare the different strategies to each other on several very hard benchmarks and on generated problem instances, and show where the novel strategies improve the efficiency.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: EVOW
• Authors: István Juhos, Attila Tóth, Jano I. van Hemert
• Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Different Heuristic Strategies, EVOW 2005, Graph Colouring Problems, Strategies Employ Heuristics