Evolving labelings of graceful graphs
Luke Branson, Andrew M. Sutton · Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference · 2022
A graceful labeling of a graph G = (V, E) is an assignment of labels to the vertices V of G subject to constraints arising from the structure of the graph. A graph is called graceful if it admits a graceful labeling. As a combinatorial problem, it has applications in coding theory, communications networks, and optimizing circuit layouts. Several different approaches, both heuristic and complete, for finding graceful labelings have been developed and analyzed empirically. Most such algorithms have been established in the context of verifying the conjecture that trees are graceful.