Authors: Zhuqi Miao Balabhaskar Balasundaram Eduardo L Pasiliao
Publish Date: 2014/01/05
Volume: 28, Issue: 1, Pages: 105-120
Abstract
The maximum clique problem is a classical problem in combinatorial optimization that has a broad range of applications in graphbased data mining social and biological network analysis and a variety of other fields This article investigates the problem when the edges fail independently with known probabilities This leads to the maximum probabilistic clique problem which is to find a subset of vertices of maximum cardinality that forms a clique with probability at least theta in 01 which is a userspecified probability threshold We show that the probabilistic clique property is hereditary and extend a wellknown exact combinatorial algorithm for the maximum clique problem to a samplingfree exact algorithm for the maximum probabilistic clique problem The performance of the algorithm is benchmarked on a testbed of DIMACS clique instances and on a randomly generated testbedThe computational experiments reported in this article were performed at the Oklahoma State University High Performance Computing Center OSUHPCC The authors are grateful to Dr Dana Brunson for her support in conducting these experiments at OSUHPCC The authors would also like to thank the referees for the comments that helped us improve the presentation of this paper This research was supported by the US Department of Energy Grant DESC0002051 the Oklahoma Transportation Center Equipment Grant OTCES10210 and by the AFRL Mathematical Modeling and Optimization Institute
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