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Abstract: We study a robustness model for the minimum coloring problem, where any vertex of the input-graph has some presence probability . We show that, under this model, the original coloring problem gives rise to a new coloring version (called Probabilistic Min Coloring) where the objective becomes to determine a partition of into independent sets , that minimizes the quantity , where, for any independent set , . We show that Probabilistic Min Coloring is NP-hard and design a polynomial time approximation algorithm achieving non-trivial approximation ratio. We then focus ourselves on probabilistic coloring of bipartite graphs and show that the problem of determining the best k-coloring (called Probabilistic Min -Coloring) is NP-hard, for any . We finally study Probabilistic Min Coloring and Probabilistic Min -Coloring in a particular family of bipartite graphs that plays a crucial role in the proof of the NP-hardness result just mentioned, and in complements of bipartite graphs. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]