Niels Grüttemeier, Philipp Heinrich Keßler, Christian Komusiewicz, Frank Sommer
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In the Vertex Triangle 2-Club problem, we are given an undirected graph G and aim to find a maximum-vertex subgraph of G that has diameter at most 2 and in which every vertex is contained in at least \(\ell \) triangles in the subgraph. So far, the only algorithm for solving Vertex Triangle 2-Club relies on an ILP formulation (Almeida and Brás in Comput Oper Res 111:258–270, 2019). In this work, we develop a combinatorial branch-and-bound algorithm that, coupled with a set of data reduction rules, outperforms the existing implementation and is able to find optimal solutions on sparse real-world graphs with more than 100,000 vertices in a few minutes. We also extend our algorithm to the Edge Triangle 2-Club problem where the triangle constraint is imposed on all edges of the subgraph.
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The objective of Journal of Combinatorial Optimization is to advance and promote the theory and applications of combinatorial optimization, which is an area of research at the intersection of applied mathematics, computer science, and operations research and which overlaps with many other areas such as computation complexity, computational biology, VLSI design, communication networks, and management science. It includes complexity analysis and algorithm design for combinatorial optimization problems, numerical experiments and problem discovery with applications in science and engineering.
The Journal of Combinatorial Optimization publishes refereed papers dealing with all theoretical, computational and applied aspects of combinatorial optimization. It also publishes reviews of appropriate books and special issues of journals.
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