KAKLAMANIS , Christos

This paper addresses the natural relaxation of the path coloring problem, in which one needs to color directed paths on a symmetric directed graph with a minimum number of colors, in such a way that paths using the same arc of the graph have different colors. This classic combinatorial problem finds applications in the minimization of the...

We study the following Constrained Bipartite Edge Coloring (CBEC) problem: We are given a bipartite graph G(U,V,E) of maximum degree l with n vertices, in which some of the edges have been legally colored with c colors. We wish to complete the coloring of the edges of G minimizing the total number of colors used. The problem has been proved to...