Copper

Copper is a (somewhat) fast implementation of a Cop Number computational algorithm.

Compilation and Usage

If you don't want to fiddle with clang, the Clion tool should pick everything up and get going immediately. Otherwise, you can compile from sources using:

> cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release CmakeLists.txt
> make Copper

And you will have a Copper executable.

Usage

./Copper -h

... will tell you all you need to know.

Acknowledgements

The core algorithm is based off algorithm 2 presented in

@article{bonato2010cops,
  title={Cops and robbers from a distance},
  author={Bonato, Anthony and Chiniforooshan, Ehsan and Pra{\l}at, Pawe{\l}},
  journal={Theoretical Computer Science},
  volume={411},
  number={43},
  pages={3834--3844},
  year={2010},
  publisher={Elsevier}
}

The implementation of the .g6 file parser is based off the g6 file format, found at the the author's website.

Furthermore, since the format is somewhat strange, the implementation of the g6 reader has been greatly influenced by the implementation of the reader from the networkX packaged, found here.