Besides the classical chromatic and achromatic numbers of a graph related to minimum or minimal vertex partitions into independent sets, the b-chromatic number was introduced in 1998 thanks to an alternative definition of the minimality of such partitions. When independent sets are replaced by dominating sets, the parameters corresponding to the chromatic and achromatic numbers are the domatic ...

Let k be a positive integer, and let G be a simple graph with vertex set V (G). A k-distance Roman dominating function on G is a labeling f : V (G) → {0, 1, 2} such that every vertex with label 0 has a vertex with label 2 within distance k from each other. A set {f1, f2, . . . , fd} of k-distance Roman dominating functions on G with the property that ∑d i=1 fi(v) ≤ 2 for each v ∈ V (G), is call...

A set S of vertices in a graph G(V,E) is called a total dominating set if every vertex v ∈ V is adjacent to an element of S. A set S of vertices in a graph G(V,E) is called a total restrained dominating set if every vertex v ∈ V is adjacent to an element of S and every vertex of V − S is adjacent to a vertex in V − S. The total domination number of a graph G denoted by γt(G) is the minimum card...

This paper surveys some of the work that was inspired by Wagner’s general technique to prove completeness in the levels of the boolean hierarchy over NP and some related results. In particular, we show that it is DP-complete to decide whether or not a given graph can be colored with exactly four colors, where DP is the second level of the boolean hierarchy. This result solves a question raised ...

An extremely simple, linear time algorithm is given for constructing a domatic partition in totally balanced hypergraphs. This simpli es and generalizes previous algorithms for interval and strongly chordal graphs. On the other hand, the domatic number problem is shown to be NP-complete for several families of perfect graphs, including chordal and bipartite graphs.

An {em Italian dominating function} on a digraph $D$ with vertex set $V(D)$ is defined as a function$fcolon V(D)to {0, 1, 2}$ such that every vertex $vin V(D)$ with $f(v)=0$ has at least two in-neighborsassigned 1 under $f$ or one in-neighbor $w$ with $f(w)=2$. A set ${f_1,f_2,ldots,f_d}$ of distinctItalian dominating functions on $D$ with the property that $sum_{i=1}^d f_i(v)le 2$ for each $vi...

Let D be a finite and simple digraph with vertex set V (D), and let f : V (D) → {−1, 1} be a two-valued function. If k ≥ 1 is an integer and x∈N−[v] f(x) ≥ k for each v ∈ V (D), where N−[v] consists of v and all vertices of D from which arcs go into v, then f is a signed k-dominating function on D. A set {f1, f2, . . . , fd} of distinct signed k-dominating functions on D with the property that ...