In a clustering problem one has to partition a set of elements into homogeneous and well-separated subsets. From a graph theoretic point of view, a cluster graph is a vertex-disjoint union of cliques. The clustering problem is the task of making fewest changes to the edge set of an input graph so that it becomes a cluster graph. We study the complexity of three variants of the problem. In the Cluster Completion variant edges can only be added. In Cluster Deletion, edges can only be deleted. In Cluster Editing, both edge additions and edge deletions are allowed. We also study these variants when the desired solution must contain a prespecified number of clusters. We show that Cluster Editing is NP-complete, Cluster Deletion is NPhard to approximate to within some constant factor, and Cluster Completion is polynomial. When the desired solution must contain exactly p clusters, we show that Cluster Editing is NP-complete for every p ≥ 2; Cluster Deletion is polynomial for p = 2 but NP-complete for p > 2; and Cluster Completion is polynomial for any p. We also give a constant factor approximation algorithm for Cluster Editing when p = 2. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2002.
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Shamir, R., Sharan, R., & Tsur, D. (2002). Cluster graph modification problems. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 2573 LNCS, pp. 379–390). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36379-3_33
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