In a graph G, a vertex is said to dominate itself and all of its neighbors. For a fixed positive integer k, the k-tuple domination problem is to find a minimum sized vertex subset in a graph such that every vertex in the graph is dominated by at least k vertices in this set. The current paper studies k-tuple domination in graphs from an algorithmic point of view. In particular, we give a linear...

We improve the generalized upper bound for the k-tuple domination number given in [A. Gagarin and V.E. Zverovich, A generalized upper bound for the k-tuple domination number, Discrete Math. 308 no. 5–6 (2008), 880–885]. Precisely, we show that for any graph G, when k = 3, or k = 4 and d ≤ 3.2, γ×k(G) ≤ ln(δ−k + 2) + ln ( (k − 2)d + ∑k−2 m=2 (k−m) 4min{m, k−2−m} d̂m + d̂k−1 ) + 1 δ − k + 2 n, and,...

In a graph G, a vertex is said to dominate itself and all of its neighbors. For a fixed positive integer k , the k-tuple domination problem is to find a minimum sized vertex subset such that every vertex in the graph is dominated by at least k vertices in this set. The present paper studies the k-tuple domination problem in graphs from an algorithmic point of view. In particular, we give a line...

Given a simple graph G = (V, E) and a fixed positive integer k. In a graph G, a vertex is said to dominate itself and all of its neighbors. A set D ⊆ V is called a k-tuple dominating set if every vertex in V is dominated by at least k vertices of D. The k-tuple domination problem is to find a minimum cardinality k-tuple dominating set. This problem is NP-complete for general graphs. In this pap...

Let k be a positive integer and let G = (V,E) be a simple graph. The k-tuple domination number γ×k(G) of G is the minimum cardinality of a k-tuple dominating set S, a set that for every vertex v ∈ V , |NG[v]∩S| ≥ k. Also the total k-domination number γ×k,t(G) of G is the minimum cardinality of a total k -dominating set S, a set that for every vertex v ∈ V , |NG(v)∩S| ≥ k. The k-transversal numb...

In a graph G, a vertex is said to dominate itself and all vertices adjacent to it. For a positive integer k, the k-tuple domination number γ×k(G) of G is the minimum size of a subset D of V (G) such that every vertex in G is dominated by at least k vertices in D. To generalize/improve known upper bounds for the k-tuple domination number, this paper establishes that for any positive integer k an...