Connect nodes to maximize total edge weight

Question

I am working on a problem which could be reduced to a graph optimization problem as below.

• A set of colored nodes is given. They are all unconnected i.e. th

Answer 1

This sounds similar to the 0-1 Knapsack problem where the maximum is calculated if an item is either placed into the knapsack or is not placed into the knapsack. Here is an example:

def knapsack(numItems, capacity, sizes, values):
  # if no more items left to put in knapsack or knapsack is full
  if (numItems == 0 or capacity == 0):
    return 0

  # if can't fit item into knapsack, try the next item
  if (sizes[numItems-1] > capacity):
    knapsack(numItems-1, capacity, sizes, values)

  # find the max of including or not including item in knapsack
  return max(
    values[values-1] + knapsack(numItems-1,capacity - weights[numitems-1], sizes, values),
    knapsack(numItems-1, capacity, sizes, values))

Here you are seeking the maximum when a node is either connected with another node or not. When a node is connected, the value that results depends on the node's color. The code would look something like:

def ConnectNodes(numItems, capacity, sizes, values, nodeColor):
  # if no more items left to connect or capacity is full
  if (numItems == 0 or capacity == 0):
    return 0

  # if can't fit item into knapsack, try the next item
  if (sizes[numItems-1] > capacity):
    ConnectNodes(numItems-1, capacity, sizes, values, nodeColor)

  # find the max of connecting or not connecting node
  return max(
    RulesForProfit(numItems-1, nodeColor) + ConnectNodes(numItems-1,capacity - weights[numitems-1], sizes, values, nodeColor),
    ConnectNodes(numItems-1, capacity, sizes, values, nodeColor))