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Applied Graph Theory
On the complexity of graph clustering in the problem with bounded cluster sizes
R. V. Baldzhanovaa, A. V. Ilevb, V. P. Il'evab a Dostoevsky Omsk State University, Omsk, Russia
b Institute of Mathematics SB RAS, Omsk, Russia
Abstract:
In the graph clustering problems, for a given graph $G$, one has to find a nearest cluster graph on the same vertex set. A graph is called cluster graph if all its connected components are complete graphs. The distance between two graphs is equal to the number of non-coincide edges. In the paper, we consider the graph clustering problem with bounded size $s$ of clusters. The clustering complexity of a graph $G$ is the distance from $G$ to a nearest cluster graph. In the case of ${s=2}$, we prove that the clustering complexity of an arbitrary $n$-vertex graph doesn't exceed ${\left\lfloor {(n-1)^2}/{2} \right\rfloor}$ for ${n \geq 2}$. In the case of ${s=3}$, we propose a polynomial time approximation algorithm for solving the graph clustering problem and use this algorithm to prove that clustering complexity of an arbitrary $n$-vertex graph doesn't exceed ${({n(n-1)}/{2} - 3\left\lfloor {n}/{3}\right\rfloor)}$ for ${n \geq 4}$.
Keywords:
graph, clustering, clustering complexity.
Citation:
R. V. Baldzhanova, A. V. Ilev, V. P. Il'ev, “On the complexity of graph clustering in the problem with bounded cluster sizes”, Prikl. Diskr. Mat., 2023, no. 60, 76–84
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