Finding a dominating set of minimum cardinality is an NP-hard graph problem, even when the graph is bipartite. In this paper we are interested in solving the problem on graphs having a large independent set. Given a graph G with an independent set of size z, we show that the problem can be solved in time O∗(2n−z), where n is the number of vertices of G. As a consequence, our algorithm is able t...

Let G be an intuitionistic fuzzy graph. Let u and v be two vertices of G. A subset D of V is called a fuzzy equitable dominating set if every v ∈ V − Dthere exist a vertex u ∈ D such that uv ∈ E(G) and |deg(u) − deg(v)| = 1 where deg(u) denotes the degree of vertex u and deg(v) denotes the degree of vertex v and μ2(vi, vj ) = μ1(vi) ∧ μ1(vj ), γ2(vi, vj ) = γ1(vi) ∨ γ1(vj ). The minimum cardina...

A set S of vertices in a graph G is a paired-dominating set of G if every vertex of G is adjacent to some vertex in S and the subgraph induced by S contains a perfect matching. The minimum cardinality of a paired-dominating set of G is the paireddomination number of G, denoted by γpr (G). In this work, we present several upper bounds on the paired-domination number in terms of the maximum degre...

An independent set of three vertices such that each pair is joined by a path that avoids the neighborhood of the third is called an asteroidal triple. A graph is asteroidal triple-free (AT-free) if it contains no asteroidal triples. The motivation for this investigation was provided, in part, by the fact that the AT-free graphs provide a common generalization of interval, permutation, trapezoid...

A set S of vertices in a graph G is a paired-dominating set of G if every vertex of G is adjacent to some vertex in S and if the subgraph induced by S contains a perfect matching. We characterize the set of vertices of a tree that are contained in all, or in no, minimum paired-dominating sets of the tree.

An independent set of three of vertices is called an asteroidal triple if between each pair in the triple there exists a path that avoids the neighborhood of the third. A graph is asteroidal triple-free (AT-free, for short) if it contains no asteroidal triple. The motivation for this work is provided, in part, by the fact that AT-free graphs ooer a common generalization of interval, permutation...

We consider a discrete-time dynamic problem in graphs in which the goal is to maintain a dominating set over an infinite sequence of time steps. At each time step, a specified vertex in the current dominating set must be replaced by a neighbor. In one version of the problem, the only change to the current dominating set is replacement of the specified vertex. In another version of the problem, ...

A k-dominating set is a set D k V such that every vertex i 2 V nD k has at least k i neighbours in D k. The k-domination number k (G) of G is the cardinality of a smallest k-dominating set of G. For k 1 = ::: = kn = 1, k-domination corresponds to the usual concept of domination. Our approach yields an improvement of an upper bound for the domination number found then the notion of k-dominating ...

As a natural variant of domination in graphs, Dankelmann et al. [Domination with exponential decay, Discrete Math. 309 (2009) 5877-5883] introduced exponential domination, where vertices are considered to have some dominating power that decreases exponentially with the distance, and the dominated vertices have to accumulate a sufficient amount of this power emanating from the dominating vertice...

Given a graphG = (V , E)with no isolated vertex, a subset S of V is called a total dominating set of G if every vertex in V is adjacent to a vertex in S. A total dominating set S is called a differentiating-total dominating set if for every pair of distinct vertices u and v in V , N[u] ∩ S ≠ N[v] ∩ S. The minimum cardinality of a differentiating-total dominating set of G is the differentiating-...