For a positive integer k, a total {k}-dominating function of a graph G without isolated vertices is a function f from the vertex set V (G) to the set {0, 1, 2, . . . , k} such that for any vertex v ∈ V (G), the condition ∑ u∈N(v) f(u) ≥ k is fulfilled, where N(v) is the open neighborhood of v. The weight of a total {k}-dominating function f is the value ω(f) = ∑ v∈V f(v). The total {k}-dominati...

A subset of vertices D of a graph G is a dominating set for G if every vertex of G not in D is adjacent to one in D. A dominating set for G is a connected dominating set if it induces a connected subgraph of G. The connected domination number of G, denoted by γc(G), is the minimum cardinality of a connected dominating set. Graph G is said to be k−γc−critical if γc(G) = k but γc(G+e) < k for eac...

Let Y be a subset of real numbers. A Y dominating function of a graph G = (V, E) is a function f : V → Y such that u∈NG[v] f(u) ≥ 1 for all vertices v ∈ V , where NG[v] = {v} ∪ {u|(u, v) ∈ E}. Let f(S) = u∈S f(u) for any subset S of V and let f(V ) be the weight of f . The Y -domination problem is to find a Y -dominating function of minimum weight for a graph. In this paper, we study the variat...

Many hard problems can be solved efficiently when the input is restricted to graphs of bounded treewidth. By the celebrated result of Courcelle, every decision problem expressible in monadic second order logic is fixed parameter tractable when parameterized by the treewidth of the input graph. Moreover, for every fixed k ≥ 0, such problems can be solved in linear time on graphs of treewidth at ...