Let k ≥ 1 be an integer, and let G be a finite and simple graph with vertex set V (G). A signed total Italian k-dominating function (STIkDF) on a graph G is a functionf : V (G) → {−1, 1, 2} satisfying the conditions that $sum_{xin N(v)}f(x)ge k$ for each vertex v ∈ V (G), where N(v) is the neighborhood of $v$, and each vertex u with f(u)=-1 is adjacent to a vertex v with f(v)=2 or to two vertic...

The independent domination number of a graph G, denoted i(G), is the minimum cardinality of a maximal independent set of G. A maximal independent set of cardinality i(G) in G we call an i(G)-set. In this paper we provide a constructive characterization of trees G that have two disjoint i(G)-sets. © 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

The independent domination number of a graph G, denoted i(G), is the minimum cardinality of a maximal independent set of G. A maximal independent set of cardinality i(G) in G we call an i(G)-set. The graph G is called i-excellent if every vertex of G belongs to some i(G)-set. We provide a constructive characterization of i-excellent trees. c © 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

The independent domination number of a graph is the smallest cardinality of an independent set that dominates the graph. In this paper we consider the independent domination number of triangle-free graphs. We improve several of the known bounds as a function of the order and minimum degree, thereby answering conjectures of Haviland.

Theaverage lower independencenumber iav(G)of a graphG=(V ,E) is defined as 1 |V | ∑ v∈V iv(G), and the average lower domination number av(G) is defined as 1 |V | ∑ v∈V v(G), where iv(G) (resp. v(G)) is the minimum cardinality of a maximal independent set (resp. dominating set) that contains v.We give an upper bound of iav(G) and av(G) for arbitrary graphs. Then we characterize the graphs achiev...

In this paper, we study the Dominating Set problem in random graphs. In a random graph, each pair of vertices are joined by an edge with a probability of p, where p is a positive constant less than 1. We show that, given a random graph in n vertices, a minimum dominating set in the graph can be computed in expected 2 2 2 n) time. For the parameterized dominating set problem, we show that it can...

The purpose of this paper is to present some basic properties of P-dominating, P-independent, and P-irredundant sets in graphs which generalize well-known properties of dominating, independent and irredundant sets, respectively.