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is a clique that cannot be extended by including one more adjacent vertex, that is, a clique which does not exist exclusively within the vertex set of a larger clique. Some authors define cliques in a way that requires them to be maximal, and use other terminology for complete subgraphs that are not
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is a notion of the complexity of a graph in terms of the minimum number of distinct vertex labels needed to build up the graph from disjoint unions, relabeling operations, and operations that connect all pairs of vertices with given labels. The graphs with clique-width one are exactly the disjoint
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in an article using less technical terms. Both works deal with uncovering cliques in a social network using matrices. For continued efforts to model social cliques graph-theoretically, see e.g.
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Rhodes, Nicholas; Willett, Peter; Calvet, Alain; Dunbar, James B.; Humblet, Christine (2003), "CLIP: similarity searching of 3D databases using clique detection",
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data as one of finding the minimum number of changes needed to transform a graph describing the data into a graph formed as the disjoint union of cliques;
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as one of finding maximum cliques in a graph that has as its vertices characteristics of the species, where two vertices share an edge if there exists a
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The 11 light blue triangles form maximal cliques. The two dark blue 4-cliques are both maximum and maximal, and the clique number of the graph is 4.
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is a graph whose edges can be covered by edge-disjoint cliques in such a way that each vertex belongs to exactly two of the cliques in the cover.
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Barthélemy, J.-P.; Leclerc, B.; Monjardet, B. (1986), "On the use of ordered sets in problems of comparison and consensus of classifications",
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as a problem of finding cliques in a graph whose vertices represent positions of subunits of the protein. And by searching for cliques in a
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of people; that is, groups of people all of whom know each other. Cliques have many other applications in the sciences and particularly in
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of a graph is a subset of vertices with the property that each maximum clique of the graph contains at least one vertex in the subset.
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Cong, J.; Smith, M. (1993), "A parallel bottom-up clustering algorithm with applications to circuit partitioning in VLSI design",
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Paull, M. C.; Unger, S. H. (1959), "Minimizing the number of states in incompletely specified sequential switching functions",
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found clusters of proteins that interact closely with each other and have few interactions with proteins outside the cluster.
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Tanay, Amos; Sharan, Roded; Shamir, Ron (2002), "Discovering statistically significant biclusters in gene expression data",
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use them to design efficient circuits for computing partially specified Boolean functions. Cliques have also been used in
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describe an application of cliques in finding a hierarchical partition of an electronic circuit into smaller subunits.
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is a method for simplifying complex biological networks by finding cliques and related structures in these networks.
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Samudrala, Ram; Moult, John (1998), "A graph-theoretic algorithm for comparative modeling of protein structure",
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Doreian, Patrick; Woodard, Katherine L. (1994), "Defining and locating cores and boundaries of social networks",
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Day, William H. E.; Sankoff, David (1986), "Computational complexity of inferring phylogenies by compatibility",
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Kuhl, F. S.; Crippen, G. M.; Friesen, D. K. (1983), "A combinatorial algorithm for calculating ligand binding",
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Spirin, Victor; Mirny, Leonid A. (2003), "Protein complexes and functional modules in molecular networks",
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is a graph whose vertices can be ordered into a perfect elimination ordering, an ordering such that the
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vertices can have at most 3 maximal cliques. The graphs meeting this bound are the Moon–Moser graphs
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is a graph all of whose induced subgraphs have the property that any maximal clique intersects any
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is the computational problem of finding a maximum clique, or all cliques, in a given graph. It is
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Hamzaoglu, I.; Patel, J. H. (1998), "Test set compaction algorithms for combinational circuits",
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problem concerns finding as few cliques as possible that include every vertex in the graph.
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Sugihara, George (1984), "Graph theory, homology and food webs", in Levin, Simon A. (ed.),
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Ben-Dor, Amir; Shamir, Ron; Yakhini, Zohar (1999), "Clustering gene expression patterns.",
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Additionally, many other mathematical constructions involve cliques in graphs. Among them,
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of a graph is the minimum number of bicliques needed to cover all the edges of the graph.
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and an edge connecting two cliques that differ by a single vertex. It is an example of
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Several important classes of graphs may be defined or characterized by their cliques:
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Chang, Maw-Shang; Kloks, Ton; Lee, Chuan-Min (2001), "Maximum clique transversals",
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is a graph whose maximal cliques can be ordered in such a way that, for each vertex
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use cliques to model the positions in which two chemicals will bind to each other.
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subgraphs was originally phrased in topological rather than graph-theoretic terms.
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of a graph is the minimum number of cliques needed to cover all the graph's edges.
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problem for expression data in which the clusters are required to be cliques.
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is a graph in which some clique contains at least one endpoint of every edge.
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Prihar, Z. (1956), "Topological properties of telecommunications networks",
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Festinger, Leon (1949), "The analysis of sociograms using matrix algebra",
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is a method for combining two graphs by merging them along a shared clique.
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The word "clique", in its graph-theoretic usage, arose from the work of
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Proc. 1998 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design
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is the clique whose vertices belong to at least two of the cliques
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is the smallest number of cliques that together cover all edges of
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is a graph that has no cliques other than its vertices and edges.
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contains a clique with at least a logarithmic number of vertices.
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Graph-theoretic concepts in computer science (Boltenhagen, 2001)
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that have a high degree of similarity with a target structure.
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Mathematical results concerning cliques include the following.
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for computing cliques have been developed, either running in
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goes back at least to the graph-theoretic reformulation of
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19 × 3-vertex cliques (light and dark blue triangles), and
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such that every two distinct vertices in the clique are
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Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences
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uses cliques to analyze communications networks, and
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Index

Maximum clique
Clique (disambiguation)

mathematical
graph theory
/ˈkliːk/
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undirected graph
adjacent
induced subgraph
complete
computer science
graph
clique problem
NP-complete
complete subgraphs
Ramsey theory
ErdƑs & Szekeres (1935)
Luce & Perry (1949)
social networks
cliques
bioinformatics
undirected graph
vertices
induced subgraph
complete graph
intersection number
independent set
complement graph
clique cover

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