The graph colouring problem, a classic NP-hard challenge, is central to many practical applications such as scheduling, resource allocation and network management. Recent advances have seen the ...

Graph coloring has been employed since the 1980s to efficiently compute sparse Jacobian and Hessian matrices using either finite differences or automatic differentiation. Several coloring problems ...

David S. Johnson, Cecilia R. Aragon, Lyle A. McGeoch, Catherine Schevon, Optimization by Simulated Annealing: An Experimental Evaluation; Part II, Graph Coloring and ...