For a graph G = (V,E), a set D ⊆ V is called a semitotal dominating set of G if D is a dominating set of G, and every vertex in D is within distance 2 of another vertex of D. The Minimum Semitotal Domination problem is to find a semitotal dominating set of minimum cardinality. Given a graph G and a positive integer k, the Semitotal Domination Decision problem is to decide whether G has a semito...

Let G be a connected finite graph. The average distance μ(G) of G is the average of the distances between all pairs of vertices of G. For a positive integer k a k-packing of G is a subset S of the vertex set of G such that the distance between any two vertices in S is greater than k. The k-packing number βk(G) of G is the maximum cardinality of a k-packing of G. We prove upper bounds on the ave...

While efficient algorithms for finding minimal distance-k dominating sets exist, finding minimum such sets is NP-hard even for bipartite graphs. This paper presents a distributed algorithm to determine a minimum (connected) distance-k dominating set and a maximum distance-2k independent set of a tree T . It terminates in O(height(T )) rounds and uses O(log k) space. To the best of our knowledge...

for every positive integer k, a set s of vertices in a graph g = (v;e) is a k- tuple dominating set of g if every vertex of v -s is adjacent to at least k vertices and every vertex of s is adjacent to at least k - 1 vertices in s. the minimum cardinality of a k-tuple dominating set of g is the k-tuple domination number of g. when k = 1, a k-tuple domination number is the well-studied domination...

For any integer $kgeq 1$ and any graph $G=(V,E)$ with minimum degree at least $k-1$‎, ‎we define a‎ ‎function $f:Vrightarrow {0,1,2}$ as a Roman $k$-tuple dominating‎ ‎function on $G$ if for any vertex $v$ with $f(v)=0$ there exist at least‎ ‎$k$ and for any vertex $v$ with $f(v)neq 0$ at least $k-1$ vertices in its neighborhood with $f(w)=2$‎. ‎The minimum weight of a Roman $k$-tuple dominatin...

For every positive integer k, a set S of vertices in a graph G = (V;E) is a k- tuple dominating set of G if every vertex of V -S is adjacent to at least k vertices and every vertex of S is adjacent to at least k - 1 vertices in S. The minimum cardinality of a k-tuple dominating set of G is the k-tuple domination number of G. When k = 1, a k-tuple domination number is the well-studied domination...

In this paper, we introduce the concept of k-power domination which is a common generalization of domination and power domination. We extend several known results for power domination to k-power domination. Concerning the complexity of the k-power domination problem, we first show that deciding whether a graph admits a k-power dominating set of size at most t is NP-complete for chordal graphs a...

A set D of vertices in a graph G is a distance-k dominating set if every vertex of G either is in D or is within distance k of at least one vertex in D. A distance-k dominating set of G of minimum cardinality is called a minimum distance-k dominating set of G. For any graph G and for a subset F of the edge set of G the set F is an edge dominating set of G if every edge of G either is in D or is...

Domination is a rapidly developing area of research in graph theory, and its various applications to ad hoc networks, distributed computing, social networks and web graphs partly explain the increased interest. This thesis focuses on domination theory, and the main aim of the study is to apply a probabilistic approach to obtain new upper bounds for various domination parameters. Chapters 2 and ...