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This paper is devoted to an oriented coloring problem motivated by a task assignment model. A recent result established the NP-completeness of deciding whether a digraph is k-oriented colorable; we extend this result to the classes of bipartite digraphs and circuit-free digraphs. Finally, we investigate the approximation of this problem: both positive and negative results are devised.
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Culus, JF., Demange, M. (2006). Oriented Coloring: Complexity and Approximation. In: Wiedermann, J., Tel, G., Pokorný, J., Bieliková, M., Štuller, J. (eds) SOFSEM 2006: Theory and Practice of Computer Science. SOFSEM 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3831. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11611257_20
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