For a graph G and an integer t we let mcct(G) be the smallest m such that there exists a coloring of the vertices of G by t colors with no monochromatic connected subgraph having ...
Abstract Polynomial-time data reduction is a classical approach to hard graph problems. Typically, particular small subgraphs are replaced by smaller gadgets. We generalize this ap...
Given a positive integer n and a family F of graphs, let R(n, F) denote the maximum number of colors in an edge-coloring of Kn such that no subgraph of Kn belonging to F has disti...
We study several cost coloring problems, where we are given a graph and a cost function on the independent sets and are to find a coloring that minimizes the function costs of the...
We consider the following vertex coloring problem. We are given an undirected graph G = (V, E), where each vertex v is associated with a penalty rejection cost rv. We need to choos...