In many applications in sequencing and scheduling it is desirable to have an underlaying graph as equitably colored as possible. In this paper we survey recent theoretical results concerning conditions for equitable colorability of some graphs and recent theoretical results concerning the complexity of equitable coloring problem. Next, since the general coloring problem is strongly NP-hard, we ...

Let G be a graph with p vertices and q edges and let = 0,1, 2, , . 2 q A              A vertex labeling   : f V G A  i e a vertex equitable labeling of G if it induces an edge labeling s said to b given by      * =  f uv f u f v  * f such that     1 v a v b   and     * = 1,2,3, , f f f E q  , where   f v a is the ber of verti num ces v with   = f v a for . ...

In this paper, we give necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of equitable partial 4-cycle and 5-cycle systems. Furthermore, we construct equitable partial 4-cycle and 6-cycle systems of Kn,n'

Positional analysis is considered an important tool in the analysis of social networks. It involves partitioning of the set of actors into subsets such that actors in a subset are similar in their structural relationships with other actors. Traditional methods of positional analysis such as structural equivalence, regular equivalence, and equitable partitions are either too strict or too generi...

A graph is equitably k-colorable if its vertices can be partitioned into k independent sets in such a way that the number of vertices in any two sets differ by at most one. The smallest k for which such a coloring exists is known as the equitable chromatic number of G and denoted χ=(G). It is known that this problem is NP-hard in general case and remains so for corona graphs. In [12] Lin i Chan...