JOHNSON, BRENDA LYNN. The Effects of Habitat Fragmentation and Connectivity on Plant Disease. (Under the direction of Nick M. Haddad.) Within a large-scale habitat corridor experiment, I performed both experimental and observational studies to determine the effects of habitat fragmentation, habitat edge, and patch connectivity on the movement and incidence of fungal plant diseases. Increased sp...

Self-stabilization for non-masking fault-tolerant distributed system has received considerable research interest over the last decade. In this paper, we propose a self-stabilizing algorithm for 2-edge-connectivity and 2-vertex-connectivity of an asynchronous distributed computer network. It is based on a self-stabilizing depth-first search, and is not a composite algorithm in the sense that it ...

Let G 1⁄4 ðV ;EÞ be a k-regular graph with connectivity j and edge connectivity k. G is maximum connected if j 1⁄4 k, and G is maximum edge connected if k 1⁄4 k. Moreover, G is super-connected if it is a complete graph, or it is maximum connected and every minimum vertex cut is fxjðv; xÞ 2 Eg for some vertex v 2 V ; and G is super-edge-connected if it is maximum edge connected and every minimum...

Let λ2(G) and τ (G) denote the second largest eigenvalue and the maximum number of edge-disjoint spanning trees of a graph G, respectively. Motivated by a question of Seymour on the relationship between eigenvalues of a graph G and bounds of τ (G), Cioabă and Wong conjectured that for any integers d , k ≥ 2 and a d -regular graph G, if λ2(G) < d − 2k−1 d+1 , then τ (G) ≥ k. They proved the conj...

Let G = (V + s, E) be a 2-edge-connected graph with a designated vertex s. A pair of edges rs, st is called admissible if splitting off these edges (replacing rs and st by rt) preserves the local edge-connectivity (the maximum number of pairwise edge disjoint paths) between each pair of vertices in V. The operation splitting off is very useful in graph theory, it is especially powerful in the s...

Sensors typically use wireless transmitters to communicate with each other. However, sensors may be located in a way that they cannot even form a connected network (e.g, due to failures of some sensors, or loss of battery power). In this paper we consider the problem of adding the smallest number of additional (relay) nodes so that the induced communication graph is k-connected. The problem is ...

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