A mixed dominating set is a collection of vertices and edges that dominates all graph. We study the complexity exact parameterized algorithms for \textsc{Mixed Dominating Set}, resolving some open questions. In particular, we settle problem's by treewidth pathwidth giving an algorithm running in time $O^*(5^{tw})$ (improving current best $O^*(6^{tw})$), as well lower bound showing our cannot be...

A subset X of edges in a graph G is called an edge dominating set of G if every edge not in X is adjacent to some edge in X. The edge domination number γ′(G) of G is the minimum cardinality taken over all edge dominating sets of G. Let m,n and k be positive integers with n − 1 ≤ m ≤ (n 2 ) , G(m,n) be the set of all non-isomorphic connected graphs of order n and size m, and G(m,n; k) = {G ∈ G(m...

A subset X of edges of a graph G is called an edge dominating set of G if every edge not in X is adjacent to some edge in X . The edge domination number γ′(G) of G is the minimum cardinality taken over all edge dominating sets of G. An edge Roman dominating function of a graph G is a function f : E(G) → {0, 1, 2} such that every edge e with f(e) = 0 is adjacent to some edge e′ with f(e′) = 2. T...

We investigate polynomial-time approximability of the problems related to edge dominating sets of graphs. When edges are unit-weighted, the edge dominating set problem is polynomially equivalent to the minimum maximal matching problem, in either exact or approximate computation, and the former problem was recently found to be approximable within a factor of 2 even with arbitrary weights. It wil...

A set D ⊆ V (G) of a graph G = (V,E) is a liar’s dominating set if (1) for all v ∈ V (G) |N [v] ∩ D| ≥ 2 and (2) for every pair u, v ∈ V (G) of distinct vertices, |N [u] ∪ N [v] ∩ D| ≥ 3. In this paper, we consider the liar’s domination number of some middle graphs. Every triple dominating set is a liar’s dominating set and every liar’s dominating set must be a double dominating set. So, the li...

In this paper, we study both concepts of geodetic dominatingand edge geodetic dominating sets and derive some tight upper bounds onthe edge geodetic and the edge geodetic domination numbers. We also obtainattainable upper bounds on the maximum number of elements in a partitionof a vertex set of a connected graph into geodetic sets, edge geodetic sets,geodetic domin...

A set D of vertices in a graph G = (V, E) is a dominating set of G if every vertex in V −D is adjacent to some vertex in D. The domination number γ(G) of G is the minimum cardinality of a dominating set. We define the cobondage number bc(G) of G to be the minimum cardinality among the sets of edges X ⊆ P2(V ) −E, where P2(V ) = {X ⊆ V : |X| = 2} such that γ(G + X) < γ(G). In this paper, the exa...

We provide parameterized algorithms for nonblocker, the parametric dual of the well known dominating set problem. We exemplify three methodologies for deriving parameterized algorithms that can be used in other circumstances as well, including the (i) use of extremal combinatorics (known results from graph theory) in order to obtain very small kernels, (ii) use of known exact algorithms for the...