In this paper, we consider graphs having a unique minimum independent dominating set. We first discuss the effects of deleting a vertex, or the closed neighborhood of a vertex, from such graphs. We then discuss five operations which, in certain circumstances, can be used to combine two graphs, each having a unique minimum independent dominating set, to produce a new graph also having a unique m...

A non-empty set of vertices is called an even dominating set if each vertex in the graph is adjacent to an even number of vertices in the set (adjacency is reflexive). An odd dominating set is defined analogously. Results on parity dominating sets in grid graphs are surveyed and related results on “Lights Out!” games on grids and graphs are discussed.

In a graph G, a vertex subset S ⊆ V (G) is said to be a dominating set of G if every vertex not in S is adjacent to a vertex in S. A dominating set S of a graph G is called a paired-dominating set if the induced subgraph G[S] contains a perfect matching. The paired-domination problem involves finding a smallest paired-dominating set of G. Given an intersection model of an interval graph G with ...

Let G = (V, E) be an undirected graph and r be a vertex weight function with positive integer values. A subset (clique) D ~_ V is an r-dominat ing set (clique) in G ifffor every vertex v e V there is a vertex u e D with dist(u, v) <~ r(v). This paper contains the following results: (i) We give a simple necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of r-dominating cliques in the case of H...

Dealing with the NP-complete Dominating Set problem on undirected graphs, we demonstrate the power of data reduction by preprocessing from a theoretical as well as a practical side. In particular, we prove that Dominating Set on planar graphs has a so-called problem kernel of linear size, achieved by two simple and easy to implement reduction rules. This answers an open question from previous w...

Given a semigraph, we can construct graphs Sa, Sca, Se and S1e. In the same pattern, we construct bipartite graphs CA(S), A(S), VE(S), CA(S) and A(S). We find the equality of domination parameters in the bipartite graphs constructed with the domination and total domination parameters of the graphs Sa and Sca. We introduce the domination and independence parameters for the bipartite semigraph. W...

A class of graphs is said to be biclique-free if there is an integer t such that no graph in the class contains Kt,t as a subgraph. Large families of graph classes, such as any nowhere dense class of graphs or d-degenerate graphs, are biclique-free. We show that various domination problems are fixed-parameter tractable on biclique-free classes of graphs, when parameterizing by both solution siz...

A weakly-connected dominating set, W, of a graph, G, is a dominating set such that the subgraph consisting of V (G) and all edges incident with vertices in W is connected. Finding a small weaklyconnected dominating set of a graph has important applications in clustering mobile ad-hoc networks. In this paper we introduce several new randomised greedy algorithms for finding small weakly-connected...

The dominating set concept in graphs has been used in many applications. In large graphs finding the minimum dominating set is difficult. The minimum dominating set problem in graphs seek a set D of minimum number of vertices such that each vertex of the graph is either in D or adjacent to a vertex in D. In a graph on n nodes if there is a single node of degree n-1 then that single node forms a...

A subset S ⊆ V (G) is an independent set of G if no two vertices of S are adjacent in G. A subset Q ⊆ V (G) is a 2-dominating set of G if each vertex from V (G)\Q has at least two neighbours in Q. We define new kind of kernels in graphs. Using existing concepts of an independent set and a 2-dominating set, we define in the natural way the concept of 2-dominating kernels in graphs. A subset J ⊂ ...