ALCOMFT-TR-01-164

Lene Monrad Favrholdt and Morten Nyhave Nielsen
On-Line Edge-Coloring with a Fixed Number of Colors
Århus. Work packages 2 and 4. June 2001.

Abstract: We investigate a variant of on-line edge-coloring in which there is a fixed number of colors available and the aim is to color as many edges as possible. We prove upper and lower bounds on the performance of different classes of algorithms for the problem. Furthermore, we determine the performance of two specific algorithms, First-Fit and Next-Fit.

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