Les problèmes de partitionnement de graphique sont une classe bien connue des problèmes d'optimisation combinatoire NP-difficiles avec un large éventail d'applications, telles que la conception de plans VLSI, la physique statistique, la planification d'une équipe sportive, la segmentation d'images et la structuration de protéines. En raison de la grande complexité de ces problèmes, les approches heuristiques et métaheuristiques sont couramment utilisées pour aborder les problèmes difficiles. Cette thèse considère trois problèmes représentatifs de cette famille, incluant le problème "max-k-cut", le problème "max-bisection" et le problème de séparation de sommets (VSP). Elle vise à élaborer des algorithmes heuristiques efficaces basés sur une ensemble d'opérateurs de recherche complémentaires. Plus précisément, nous développons une heuristique à opérateur multiple (MOH) pour "max-k-cut", un algorithme de recherche Tabu itérée (ITS) pour "max-bisection" et un algorithme "path relinking" (PR-VSP) pour VSP. Des résultats expérimentaux sur des jeux de test standard démontrent que les algorithmes proposés rivalisent favorablement avec les approches existantes de la littérature. L'utilisation combinée de plusieurs opérateurs de recherche est analysée afin de mettre en évidence l'influence de ces opérateurs sur la performance des algorithmes. / Graph partitioning problems are a class of well-known NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems with a wide range of applications, such as VLSI layout design, statistical physics, sports team scheduling, image segmentation, and protein conformation for instances. This thesis considers three representative problems in this family, including the max-k-cut problem, the max-bisection problem and the vertex separator problem (VSP). Due to high computational complexity, heuristic and metaheuristic approaches are commonly used for approximating the challenging problems. This thesis is devoted to developing efficient metaheuristic algorithms based on a collection of complementary search operators. Specifically, we develop a multiple operator heuristic (MOH) for max-k-cut, an iterated tabu search (ITS) algorithm for max-bisection and a path relinking (PR-VSP) algorithm for VSP. Extensive computational experiments and comparisons demonstrate that the proposed algorithms compete favorably with state-of-the-art approaches in the literature. The combined use of multiple search operators is analyzed to shed lights on the influence over the performance of the algorithms.

Cette thèse concerne quatre problèmes de coloration de graphes NPdifficiles, à savoir le problème de coloration (GCP), le problème de coloration équitable (ECP), le problème de coloration des sommets pondérés et le problème de sous-graphe critique (k-VCS). Ces problèmes sont largement étudiés dans la littérature, non seulement pour leur difficulté théorique, mais aussi pour leurs applications réelles dans de nombreux domaines. Étant donné qu'ils appartiennent à la classe de problèmes NP-difficiles, il est difficile de les résoudre dans le cas général de manière exacte. Pour cette raison, cette thèse est consacrée au développement d'approches heuristiques pour aborder ces problèmes complexes. Plus précisément, nous développons un algorithme mémétique de réduction (RMA) pour la coloration des graphes, un algorithme de recherche réalisable et irréalisable (FISA) pour la coloration équitable et un réalisable et irréalisable (AFISA) pour le problème de coloration des sommets pondérés et un algorithme de suppression basé sur le retour en arrière (IBR) pour le problème k-VCS. Tous les algorithmes ont été expérimentalement évalués et comparés aux méthodes de l'état de l'art. / This thesis concerns four NP-hard graph coloring problems, namely, graph coloring (GCP), equitable coloring (ECP), weighted vertex coloring (WVCP) and k-vertex-critical subgraphs (k-VCS). These problems are extensively studied in the literature not only for their theoretical intractability, but also for their real-world applications in many domains. Given that they belong to the class of NP-hard problems, it is computationally difficult to solve them exactly in the general case. For this reason, this thesis is devoted to developing effective heuristic approaches to tackle these challenging problems. We develop a reduction memetic algorithm (RMA) for the graph coloring problem, a feasible and infeasible search algorithm (FISA) for the equitable coloring problem, an adaptive feasible and infeasible search algorithm (AFISA) for the weighted vertex coloring problem and an iterated backtrack-based removal (IBR) algorithm for the k-VCS problem. All these algorithms were experimentally evaluated and compared with state-of-the-art methods.

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