We design fast exact algorithms for the problem of computing a minimum dominating set in undirected graphs. Since this problem is NP-hard, it comes with no big surprise that all our time complexities are exponential in the number n of vertices. The contribution of this paper are ‘nice’ exponential time complexities that are bounded by functions of the form c with reasonably small constants c < ...

&lrm;It is a well-known fact that finding a minimum dominating set and consequently the domination number of a general graph is an NP-complete problem&lrm;. &lrm;In this paper&lrm;, &lrm;we first model it as a nonlinear binary optimization problem and then extract two closely related semidefinite relaxations&lrm;. &lrm;For each of these relaxations&lrm;, &lrm;different rounding algorithm is exp...

a dominating set $d subseteq v$ of a graph $g = (v,e)$ is said to be a connected cototal dominating set if $langle d rangle$ is connected and $langle v-d rangle neq phi$, contains no isolated vertices. a connected cototal dominating set is said to be minimal if no proper subset of $d$ is connected cototal dominating set. the connected cototal domination number $gamma_{ccl}(g)$ of $g$ is the min...

Roman dominating function} on a digraph $D$ with vertex set $V(D)$ is a labeling$fcolon V(D)to {0, 1, 2}$such that every vertex with label $0$ has an in-neighbor with label $2$. A set ${f_1,f_2,ldots,f_d}$ ofRoman dominating functions on $D$ with the property that $sum_{i=1}^d f_i(v)le 2$ for each $vin V(D)$,is called a {em Roman dominating family} (of functions) on $D$....

A set D of vertices in a graph G is a dominating set if every vertex in V −D is adjacent to some vertex in D. The domination number γ(G) is the minimum cardinality of a dominating set of G. A dominating set D of a graph G is total dominating set if the induced subgraph 〈D〉 has no isolated vertices. In this paper, we introduce the total co-independent domination in graphs, exact value for some s...

An {em Italian dominating function} on a digraph $D$ with vertex set $V(D)$ is defined as a function$fcolon V(D)to {0, 1, 2}$ such that every vertex $vin V(D)$ with $f(v)=0$ has at least two in-neighborsassigned 1 under $f$ or one in-neighbor $w$ with $f(w)=2$. A set ${f_1,f_2,ldots,f_d}$ of distinctItalian dominating functions on $D$ with the property that $sum_{i=1}^d f_i(v)le 2$ for each $vi...

A dominating induced matching, also called an efficient edge domination, of a graph G = (V,E) with n = |V | vertices andm = |E| edges is a subset F ⊆ E of edges in the graph such that no two edges in F share a common endpoint and each edge in E\F is incident with exactly one edge in F . It is NP-hard to decide whether a graph admits a dominating induced matching or not. In this paper, we design...