Parameterized edge dominating set in graphs with degree bounded by 3

Parameterized Edge Dominating Set in Cubic Graphs

In this paper, we present an improved algorithm to decide whether a graph of maximum degree 3 has an edge dominating set of size k or not, which is based on enumerating vertex covers. We first enumerate vertex covers of size at most 2k and then construct an edge dominating set based on each vertex cover to find a satisfied edge dominating set. To enumerate vertex covers, we use a branch-and-red...

Approximation hardness of dominating set problems in bounded degree graphs

We study approximation hardness of the Minimum Dominating Set problem and its variants in undirected and directed graphs. Using a similar result obtained by Trevisan for Minimum Set Cover we prove the first explicit approximation lower bounds for various kinds of domination problems (connected, total, independent) in bounded degree graphs. Asymptotically, for degree bound approaching infinity, ...

Improved Approximations of Independent Dominating Set in Bounded Degree Graphs

We consider the problem of nding an independent dominating set of minimum cardinality in bounded degree and regular graphs. We rst give an approximation algorithm for at most cubic graphs, that achieves ratio 2, based on greedy and local search techniques. We then propose an heuristic based on an iterative application of the greedy technique on graphs of lower and lower degree. When the graph i...

New parameterized algorithms for edge dominating set

An edge dominating set of a graph G = (V,E) is a subset M ⊆ E of edges in the graph such that each edge in E −M is incident with at least one edge in M . In an instance of the parameterized edge dominating set problem we are given a graph G = (V,E) and an integer k and we are asked to decide whether G has an edge dominating set of size at most k. In this paper we show that the parameterized edg...

Parameterized Planar Dominating Set