Processor cache memory management is a challenging issue as it deeply impact performances and power consumption of electronic devices. It has been shown that allocating data structures to memory for a given application (as MPEG encoding, filtering or any other signal processing application) can be modeled as a minimum k-weighted graph coloring problem, on the so-called conflict graph. The graph...

A set S of vertices in a graph G is a paired-dominating set of G if every vertex of G is adjacent to some vertex in S and the subgraph induced by S contains a perfect matching. The minimum cardinality of a paired-dominating set of G is the paireddomination number of G, denoted by γpr (G). In this work, we present several upper bounds on the paired-domination number in terms of the maximum degre...

A proper vertex k-coloring of a graph G is dynamic if for every vertex v with degree at least 2, the neighbors of v receive at least two different colors. The smallest integer k such that G has a dynamic k-coloring is the dynamic chromatic number χd(G). We prove in this paper the following best possible upper bounds as an analogue to Brook’s Theorem, together with the determination of chromatic...

A total dominating set of a graph G with no isolated vertex is a set S of vertices of G such that every vertex is adjacent to a vertex in S. The total domination number of G is the minimum cardinality of a total dominating set in G. In this paper, we present several upper bounds on the total domination number in terms of the minimum degree, diameter, girth and order.