Isnaini Rosyida, Widodo, Ch. Rini Indrati, Kiki A. Sugeng
A fuzzy graph referred in this paper is a graph with crisp vertex set and fuzzy edge set. The most important issue in the coloring problem of fuzzy graph is to construct a method for finding the chromatic number of fuzzy graph. Most of the methods that many researchers had been done still result crisp chromatic number. In this paper, we propose a new approach to determine fuzzy chromatic set of fuzzy graph. In our proposed method, the fuzzy chromatic set of fuzzy graph is constructed through its ä-chromatic number. Further, we investigate some properties of the fuzzy chromatic set of fuzzy graph. We show that fuzzy chromatic set of fuzzy graph is a discrete fuzzy number and then it is called by fuzzy chromatic number. To the best of our knowledge, no one has determined fuzzy chromatic number of fuzzy graph through its ä-chromatic number before now. Finally, a fuzzy chromatic algorithm based on the new approach is proposed. © 2015-IOS Press and the authors. All rights reserved.
Department of Mathematics, Gadjah Mada University (UGM), Yogyakarta, Indonesia; Department of Mathematics, Semarang State University (UNNES), Semarang, Indonesia; Department of Mathematics, University of Indonesia (UI), Jakarta, Indonesia