A k-rainbow dominating function of a graph G is a map f from V (G) to the set of all subsets of {1, 2, . . . , k} such that {1, . . . , k} = ⋃ u∈N(v) f(u) whenever v is a vertex with f(v) = ∅. The k-rainbow domination number of G is the invariant γrk(G), which is the minimum sum (over all the vertices of G) of the cardinalities of the subsets assigned by a k-rainbow dominating function. We focu...

This paper presents a new approach to compute the MCDS (Minimum Connected Dominating Set) for Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET). The problem of finding a MCDS is NP-hard. This approach is based on linear programming theory. In first step, we formulate the problem to find the minimum dominating set as an integer linear programming problem. Next, we add constraints to the original problem to force th...

Let G = (V, E) be a simple graph with vertex set V and edge set E. A function f from V to a set {-1, 1} is said to be a nonnegative signed dominating function (NNSDF) if the sum of its function values over any closed neighborhood is at least zero. The weight of f is the sum of function values of vertices in V. The nonnegative signed domination number for a graph G equals the minimum weight of a...

Say that an edge of a graph G dominates itself and every other edge adjacent to it. An edge dominating set of a graph G = (V,E) is a subset of edges E′ ⊆ E which dominates all edges of G. In particular, if every edge of G is dominated by exactly one edge of E′ then E′ is a dominating induced matching. It is known that not every graph admits a dominating induced matching, while the problem to de...

A vertex set D in a finite undirected graph G is an efficient dominating set (e.d.s. for short) of G if every vertex of G is dominated by exactly one vertex of D. The Efficient Domination (ED) problem, which asks for the existence of an e.d.s. in G, is known to be NP-complete even for very restricted graph classes such as for 2P3-free chordal graphs while it is solvable in polynomial time for P...

Given a graphG, the k-dominating graph ofG, Dk(G), is defined to be the graph whose vertices correspond to the dominating sets of G that have cardinality at most k. Two vertices in Dk(G) are adjacent if and only if the corresponding dominating sets of G differ by either adding or deleting a single vertex. The graph Dk(G) aids in studying the reconfiguration problem for dominating sets. In parti...

Given a directed graph G = (V, A), the Directed Maximum Leaf Spanning Tree problem asks to compute a directed spanning tree (i.e., an out-branching) with as many leaves as possible. By designing a Branch-and-Reduced algorithm combined with the Measure&Conquer technique for running time analysis, we show that the problem can be solved in time O(1.9043) using polynomial space. Hitherto, there hav...

Let γm,n denote the size of a minimum dominating set in the m× n grid graph. For the square grid graph, exact values for γn,n have earlier been published for n 6 19. By using a dynamic programming algorithm, the values of γm,n for m,n 6 29 are here obtained. Minimum dominating sets for square grid graphs up to size 29× 29 are depicted. ∗Supported by the Academy of Finland, Grant No. 132122 and ...