The Clique-Width of Bipartite Graphs in Monogenic Classes

The tree- and clique-width of bipartite graphs in special classes

Chordal bipartite graphs of bounded tree- and clique-width

A bipartite graph is chordal bipartite if every cycle of length at least six has a chord. In the class of chordal bipartite graphs the tree-width and the clique-width are unbounded. Our main results are that chordal bipartite graphs of bounded vertex degree have bounded tree-width and that k-fork-free chordal bipartite graphs have bounded clique-width, where a k-fork is the graph arising from a...

Upper bounds to the clique width of graphs

A graph complexity measure that we call clique-width is associated in a natural way with certain graph decompositions, more or less like tree-width is associated with tree-decomposition which are, actually, hierarchical decompositions of graphs. In general, a decomposition of a graph G can be viewed as a nite term, written with appropriate operations on graphs, that evaluates to G. Innnitely ma...

On the linear structure and clique-width of bipartite permutation graphs

Bipartite permutation graphs have several nice characterizations in terms of vertex ordering. Besides, as AT-free graphs, they have a linear structure in the sense that any connected bipartite permutation graph has a dominating path. In the present paper, we elaborate the linear structure of bipartite permutation graphs by showing that any connected graph in the class can be stretched into a "p...

Narrowing the gap in the clique-width dichotomy for $(H_1, H_2)$-free graphs

We continue a recent systematic study into the clique-width of (H1, H2)-free graphs and present five new classes of (H1, H2)-free graphs of bounded clique-width. As a consequence, we have reduced the number of open cases from 13 to 8. Four of the five new graph classes have in common that one of their two forbidden induced subgraphs is the triangle. As such, we generalize corresponding results ...