The open neighborhood of a vertex $v$ of a graph $G$ is the set $N(v)$ consisting of all vertices adjacent to $v$ in $G$. For $Dsubseteq V(G)$, we define $overline{D}=V(G)setminus D$. A set $Dsubseteq V(G)$ is called a super dominating set of $G$ if for every vertex $uin overline{D}$, there exists $vin D$ such that $N(v)cap overline{D}={u}$. The super domination number of $G$ is the minimum car...

Slack and margin rescaling are variants of the structured output SVM. They define convex surrogates to task specific loss functions, which, when specialized to nonadditive loss functions for multi-label problems, yield extensions to increasing set functions. We demonstrate in this paper that we may use these concepts to define polynomial time convex extensions of arbitrary supermodular function...

We present a technique that can be used to obtain efficient parallel algorithms in the EREW-PRAM computational model. This technique enables us to optimally solve a number of geometric problems in O(logn) time using O(n/logn) EREW-PRAM processors, where n is the input size. These problerns include: computing the convex hull oCa sorted point set in the plane, computing the convex hull oCa simple...

A set D ⊆ V (G) of a graph G = (V,E) is a liar’s dominating set if (1) for all v ∈ V (G) |N [v] ∩ D| ≥ 2 and (2) for every pair u, v ∈ V (G) of distinct vertices, |N [u] ∪ N [v] ∩ D| ≥ 3. In this paper, we consider the liar’s domination number of some middle graphs. Every triple dominating set is a liar’s dominating set and every liar’s dominating set must be a double dominating set. So, the li...

A total dominating set of a graph G = (V,E) is a subset D ⊆ V such that every vertex in V is adjacent to some vertex in D. Finding a total dominating set of minimum size is NPcomplete on planar graphs and W [2]-complete on general graphs when parameterized by the solution size. By the meta-theorem of Bodlaender et al. [FOCS 2009], it follows that there exists a linear kernel for Total Dominatin...

We prove that for every tree T of order at least 2 and every minimum dominating set D of T which contains at most one endvertex of T , there is an independent dominating set I of T which is disjoint from D. This confirms a recent conjecture of Johnson, Prier, and Walsh.

The notion of a bead metric space is defined as a nice generalization of the uniformly convex normed space such as $CAT(0)$ space, where the curvature is bounded from above by zero. In fact, the bead spaces themselves can be considered in particular as natural extensions of convex sets in uniformly convex spaces and normed bead spaces are identical with uniformly convex spaces. In this paper, w...

A recent result of Henning and Southey (A note on graphs with disjoint dominating and total dominating set, Ars Comb. 89 (2008), 159–162) implies that every connected graph of minimum degree at least three has a dominating set D and a total dominating set T which are disjoint. We show that the Petersen graph is the only such graph for which D ∪ T necessarily contains all vertices of the graph.