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- From: jagota@sybil.cs.Buffalo.EDU (Arun Jagota)
- Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
- Subject: seeking refs: vertex cover using NNs
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- Date: 28 Aug 92 22:35:17 GMT
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- I am seeking references on application of neural networks to the vertex
- cover (MVC) graph optimization problem. I am aware of one encoding of MVC (
- TR208/88; U. Toronto; 1988) in a Hopfield net; though this encoding is only
- for complexity theory purposes. Scanning the TOC of the book:
- Neural Networks for Parallel Computing, Y. Takefuji does not show MVC was
- addressed. Also, vertex cover is apparently mentioned only in one line in the
- book: Simulated Annealing and Boltzmann Machines - A Stochastic Approach to
- Combinatorial Optimization and Neural Computing, E. Aarts & J. Korst.
- One reason may be that MVC may be indirectly solved (approximated) via
- approximation to maximum clique, maximum independent set, etc. I have
- references to these; I am looking for _direct_ solution of MVC.
- Please e-mail references directly; encoding details would be even more
- appreciated. I will e-mail out what I collect upon request.
- Thanks in advance, Arun Jagota jagota@cs.buffalo.edu
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