@techreport{TR-IC-10-23, number = {IC-10-23}, author = {C. N. Campos and S. Dantas and C. P. de Mello}, title = {Clique-colouring of some circulant graphs}, month = {July}, year = {2010}, institution = {Institute of Computing, University of Campinas}, note = {In English, 15 pages. \par\selectlanguage{english}\textbf{Abstract} A clique-colouring of a graph $G$ is a colouring of the vertices of $G$ so that no maximal clique of size at least two is monochromatic. The clique-hypergraph, $\mathcal{H}(G)$, of a graph $G$ has $V(G)$ as its set of vertices and the maximal cliques of $G$ as its hyperedges. A vertex-colouring of $\mathcal{H}(G)$ is a clique-colouring of $G$. Determining the clique-chromatic number, the least number of colours for which a graph $G$ admits a clique-colouring, is known to be \emph{NP}-hard. By determining some structural properties of powers of cycles, we establish that the clique-chromatic number of these graphs is equal to two, except for odd cycles of size at least five, that need three colours. For odd-seq circulant graphs, we show that their clique-chromatic number is at most four, and determine the cases when it is equal to two. Similar bounds for the chromatic number of these graphs are also obtained. } }