• DocumentCode
    3580566
  • Title

    An Improved Greedy Heuristic for Unweighted Minimum Vertex Cover

  • Author

    Tomar, Dhananjay

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Jaypee Inst. of Inf. Technol., Noida, India
  • fYear
    2014
  • Firstpage
    618
  • Lastpage
    622
  • Abstract
    The minimum vertex cover (MVC) problem is a well-studied NP-Complete problem and has various applications. In this paper, a new heuristic approach has been proposed to find the minimum vertex cover of a graph. The proposed algorithm has been tested on random graphs and BHOSLIB instances. The results have shown that the proposed algorithm can yield better solutions especially on dense graphs for solving the minimum vertex cover problem.
  • Keywords
    graph theory; greedy algorithms; heuristic programming; optimisation; random processes; BHOSLIB instances; MVC problem; NP-complete problem; dense graphs; greedy heuristic; random graphs; unweighted minimum vertex cover problem; Algorithm design and analysis; Approximation algorithms; Approximation methods; Benchmark testing; Greedy algorithms; Optimization; Time complexity; NP-hard problem; greedy; heuristic; vertex cover;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (CICN), 2014 International Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-6928-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CICN.2014.138
  • Filename
    7065558