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A Novel Particle Swarm Optimization-Based Algorithm for the Graph Coloring Problem

Abstract

In this paper, we study the problem of graph coloring and propose a novel particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm for it. We use the PSO evolutionary progress to improve a simple deterministic greedy algorithm. The new algorithm can achieve a result that is better than known heuristic algorithms do, as verified by an extensive simulation study.

Keywords:
Particle swarm optimization Computer science Graph coloring Greedy algorithm Mathematical optimization Multi-swarm optimization Heuristic Metaheuristic Algorithm Simple (philosophy) Evolutionary algorithm Graph Theoretical computer science Mathematics

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