The best known method for determining lower bounds on the vertex coloring number of a graph is the linear-programming column-generation technique first employed by Mehrotra and Trick in 1996. We present an implementation of the method that provides numerically safe results, independent of the floating-point accuracy of linear-programming software. Our work includes an improved branch-and-bound algorithm for maximum-weight stable sets and a parallel branch-and-price framework for graph coloring. Computational results are presented on a collection of standard test instances, including the unsolved challenge problems created by David S. Johnson in 1989. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.
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Held, S., Cook, W., & Sewell, E. C. (2011). Safe lower bounds for graph coloring. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 6655 LNCS, pp. 261–273). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20807-2_21
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