Let k be a positive integer and G = (V,E) be a graph of minimum degree at least k − 1. A function f : V → {−1, 1} is called a signed k-dominating function of G if ∑ u∈NG[v] f(u) ≥ k for all v ∈ V . The signed k-domination number of G is the minimum value of ∑ v∈V f(v) taken over all signed k-dominating functions of G. The signed total k-dominating function and signed total k-domination number o...

Top-k dominating queries combine the advantages of top-k queries and skyline queries, and eliminate their disadvantages. They return k objects with the highest domination score, which is defined as the number of dominated objects. As a top-k query, the user can bound the number of returned results through the parameter k, and like a skyline query a user-selected scoring function is not required...

Let S be a dataset of n 2-dimensional points. The top-k dominating query aims to report the k points that dominate the most points in S . A point p dominates a point q iff all coordinates of p are smaller than or equal to those of q and at least one of them is strictly smaller. The top-k dominating query combines the dominance concept of maxima queries with the ranking function of top-k queries...

Let k be a positive integer, and let G be a simple graph with vertex set V (G). A k-distance Roman dominating function on G is a labeling f : V (G) → {0, 1, 2} such that every vertex with label 0 has a vertex with label 2 within distance k from each other. A set {f1, f2, . . . , fd} of k-distance Roman dominating functions on G with the property that ∑d i=1 fi(v) ≤ 2 for each v ∈ V (G), is call...

a {em 2-rainbow dominating function} (2rdf) of a graph $g$ is a function $f$ from the vertex set $v(g)$ to the set of all subsets of the set ${1,2}$ such that for any vertex $vin v(g)$ with $f(v)=emptyset$ the condition $bigcup_{uin n(v)}f(u)={1,2}$ is fulfilled, where $n(v)$ is the open neighborhood of $v$. the {em weight} of a 2rdf $f$ is the value $omega(f)=sum_{vin v}|f (v)|$. the {em $2$-r...

A subset $S$ of vertex set $V(D)$ is an {em indpendent dominating set} of $D$ if $S$ is both an independent and a dominating set of $D$. The {em indpendent domination number}, $i(D)$ is the cardinality of the smallest independent dominating set of $D$. In this paper we calculate the independent domination number of the { em cartesian product} of two {em directed paths} $P_m$ and $P_n$ for arbi...

A set S of vertices in a graph G=(V,E) is a dominating set ofG if every vertex of V-S is adjacent to some vertex of S.For an integer k≥1, a set S of vertices is a k-step dominating set if any vertex of $G$ is at distance k from somevertex of S. In this paper, using membership values of vertices and edges in fuzzy graphs, we introduce the concepts of strength of strongestdominating set as well a...

An infinite graph G is called dominating if its vertices can be labelled with natural numbers in such a way that for every function f : ω→ ω there is a ray in G whose sequence of labels eventually exceeds f . Conversely, G is called bounded if for every labelling of its vertices with natural numbers there exists a function f : ω→ω which eventually exceeds the labelling along any ray in G. This ...

For any integer k ≥ 1, a signed (total) k-dominating function is a function f : V (G) → {−1, 1} satisfying w∈N [v] f(w) ≥ k ( P w∈N(v) f(w) ≥ k) for every v ∈ V (G), where N(v) = {u ∈ V (G)|uv ∈ E(G)} and N [v] = N(v)∪{v}. The minimum of the values ofv∈V (G) f(v), taken over all signed (total) k-dominating functions f, is called the signed (total) k-domination number and is denoted by γkS(G) (γ...