Article ID: | iaor20102989 |
Volume: | 37 |
Issue: | 5 |
Start Page Number: | 351 |
End Page Number: | 355 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2009 |
Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
Authors: | Caramia Massimiliano, Apollonio Nicola |
Edge-Path-Tree (EPT) graphs are intersection graphs of EPT matrices that is matrices whose columns are incidence vectors of edge-sets of paths in a given tree. EPT graphs have polynomially many cliques [M.C. Golumbic, R.E. Jamison (1985) C.L. Monma, V.K. Wey (1986)]. Therefore, the problem of finding a clique of maximum weight in these graphs is solvable in strongly polynomial time. We extend this result to a proper superclass of EPT graphs.