• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.19 no.10
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• pp.403-410
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• 2021

Given an undirected simple graph, k-club is one of the proposed structures to model social groups that exist in various types in Social Network Analysis (SNA). Maximum k-Club Problem (MkCP) is to find a k-club of maximum cardinality in a graph. This paper introduces a Genetic Algorithm called HGA+DROP which can be used to approximate maximum k-club in graphs. Our algorithm modifies the existing k-CLIQUE & DROP algorithm and utilizes Heuristic Genetic Algorithms (HGA) to obtain multiple k-clubs. We experiment on DIMACS graphs for k = 2, 3, 4 and 5 to compare the performance of the proposed algorithm with existing algorithms.