vertex coloring

(definition)

Definition: An assignment of colors (or any distinct marks) to the vertices of a graph. Strictly speaking, a coloring is proper if no two adjacent vertices have the same color.

Note: From Algorithms and Theory of Computation Handbook, Copyright © 1999 by CRC Press LLC. Appearing in the Dictionary of Computer Science, Engineering and Technology, Copyright © 2000 CRC Press LLC.

Authors: PEB,CRC-A

Implementation

(Fortran, C, Pascal, C++, and Mathematica)

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Paul E. Black and Algorithms and Theory of Computation Handbook, CRC Press LLC, 1999, "vertex coloring", in Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [online], Vreda Pieterse and Paul E. Black, eds. 2 September 2014. (accessed TODAY) Available from: /HTML/vertexcolor.html