Аннотация:In the cluster editing problem, one has to partition the set of vertices of a graph into disjoint subsets (called clusters) minimizing the number of edges between clusters and the number of missing edges within clusters. We consider a version of the problem in which cluster sizes are bounded from above by a positive integer s. This problem is NP-hard for any fixed s ⩾ 3. We propose polynomial-time approximation algorithms for this version of the problem. Their performance guarantees are equal to 5/3 and 5/2 for the cases s = 3and s = 4, respectively.We also show that the cluster editing problem is APX-complete for the case s=3 even if the maximum degree of the graphs is bounded by 4.