Maximum cut‐clique problem: ILS heuristics and a data analysis application

This paper focuses on iterated local search heuristics for the maximum cut‐clique (MCC, or clique neighborhood) problem. Given an undirected graph G = (V,E) and a clique C of G, the cut‐clique is the set of edges running between C and V\C, establishing the cut (C,V\C). The MCC in G is to find a cliq...

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Authors: Martins, Pedro, Ladrón de Guevara, Antonio, Ramalhinho-Lourenço, Helena
Format: article
Status:Versión aceptada para publicación
Publication Date:2014
Country:España
Institution:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repository:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:10230/44396
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/44396
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/itor.12120
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Cut-cliques
Clique’s edge neighborhood
Iterated local search heuristics
Discretized formulations
Market basket analysis
Data mining
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Summary:This paper focuses on iterated local search heuristics for the maximum cut‐clique (MCC, or clique neighborhood) problem. Given an undirected graph G = (V,E) and a clique C of G, the cut‐clique is the set of edges running between C and V\C, establishing the cut (C,V\C). The MCC in G is to find a clique with the largest number of edges in the neighborhood of the clique, also known as the maximum edge‐neighborhood clique. This problem has been recently introduced in the literature together with a number of applications, namely, in cell biology instances. However, it has only been addressed so far by exact methods. In this paper, we introduce the first approximate algorithms for tackling the MCC problem, compare the results with the exact methodologies, and explore a new application within marketing analysis, which provide a new alternative perspective for mining market basket problems.