This paper is motivated by the concept of the signed k-domination problem and dedicated to the complexity of the problem on graphs. For any fixed nonnegative integer k, we show that the signed k-domination problem is NP-complete for doubly chordal graphs. For strongly chordal graphs and distance-hereditary graphs, we show that the signed k-domination problem can be solved in polynomial time. We...

A graph is distance-hereditary if the distance between any two vertices in a connected induced subgraph is the same as in the original graph. This paper presents e-cient algorithms for solving the weighted connected k-domination and the weighted k-dominating clique problems in distance-hereditary graphs. c © 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

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...

The 2-step domination problem is to find a minimum vertex set D of a graph such that every vertex of the graph is either in D or at distance two from some vertex of D. In the present paper, by using a labeling method, we provide an O(m) time algorithm to solve the 2-step domination problem on block graphs, a superclass of trees.

The detour distance between two vertices u and v in a connected graph G is the length of a longest v u − path in G. We survey results and some open questions on detour distance, including connections of this distance to domination, coloring and Hamiltonian properties of graphs.

Let k be a positive integer and G = (V,E) be a connected graph of order n. A set D ⊆ V is called a k-dominating set of G if each x ∈ V (G) − D is within distance k from some vertex of D. A connected k-dominating set is a k-dominating set that induces a connected subgraph of G. The connected k-domination number of G, denoted by γ k(G), is the minimum cardinality of a connected k-dominating set. ...

Let G be a graph with no isolated vertex. In this paper, we study a parameter that is squeezed between arguably the two most important domination parameters; namely, the domination number, γ(G), and the total domination number, γt(G). A set S of vertices in a graph G is a semitotal dominating set of G if it is a dominating set of G and every vertex in S is within distance 2 of another vertex of...

A broadcast domination on a graph assigns an integer value f(u) ≥ 0 to each vertex u, such that every vertex u with f(u) = 0 is within distance f(v) from a vertex v with f(v) > 0. The Broadcast Domination problem seeks to compute a broadcast domination where the sum of the assigned values is minimized. We show that Broadcast Domination can be solved in linear time on block graphs. For general g...