In a graph G = (V; E), a set of vertices S is nearly perfect if every vertex in V ? S is adjacent to at most one vertex in S. Nearly perfect sets are closely related to 2-packings of graphs, strongly stable sets, dominating sets and eecient dominating sets. We say a nearly perfect set S is 1-minimal if for every vertex u in S, the set S ? fug is not nearly perfect. Similarly, a nearly perfect s...

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. The paired-domination number of G, denoted by γpr(G), is the minimum cardinality of a paired-dominating set of G. In [?], the authors gave tight bounds for paired-dominating sets of generalized claw-free graphs. Yet, ...

Let G be a graph with no isolated vertex. In this paper, we study a parameter that is squeezed between arguably the two most important domination parameters; namely, the domination number, γ(G), and the total domination number, γt(G). A set S of vertices in a graph G is a semitotal dominating set of G if it is a dominating set of G and every vertex in S is within distance 2 of another vertex of...

Let β(G), Γ(G) and IR(G) be the independence number, the upper domination number and the upper irredundance number, respectively. A graph G is called Γperfect if β(H) = Γ(H), for every induced subgraph H of G. A graph G is called IR-perfect if Γ(H) = IR(H), for every induced subgraph H of G. In this paper, we present a characterization of Γ-perfect graphs in terms of some family of forbidden in...

Let G = (V,E) be a graph without isolated vertices. A set S ⊆ V is a total dominating set if every vertex in V is adjacent to at least one vertex in S. A total dominating set S ⊆ V is a paired-dominating set if the induced subgraph G[S] has at least one perfect matching. The paired-domination number γpr(G) is the minimum cardinality of a paired-domination set of G. In this paper, we provide a c...

We propose a fast, silent self-stabilizing protocol building a distance-k independent dominating set, named FID. The convergence of the protocol FID is established for any computation under the unfair distributed scheduler. The protocol FID reaches a terminal (also legitimate) configuration in at most 4n+k rounds, where n is the network size; it requires (k + 1)log(n + 1) bits per node. keyword...

A k-dominating set is a set D of nodes of a graph such that, for each node v, there exists a node w ∈ D at distance at most k from v. Our aim is the deterministic distributed construction of small T -dominating sets in time T in networks modeled as undirected n-node graphs and under the LOCAL communication model. For any positive integer T , if b is the size of a pairwise disjoint collection of...

A Roman dominating function on a graphG is a function f : V (G) → {0, 1, 2} satisfying the condition that every vertex u ∈ V (G) for which f(u) = 0 is adjacent to at least one vertex v ∈ V (G) for which f(v) = 2. The weight of a Roman dominating function is the value f(V (G)) = ∑ u∈V (G) f(u). The Roman domination number γR(G) of G is the minimum weight of a Roman dominating function on G. A Ro...

Let be a simple undirected fuzzy graph. A subset S of V is called a dominating set in G if every vertex in V-S is effectively adjacent to at least one vertex in S. A dominating set S of V is said to be a Independent dominating set if no two vertex in S is adjacent. The independent domination number of a fuzzy graph is denoted by (G) which is the smallest cardinality of a independent dominating ...

An outer-independent double Italian dominating function (OIDIDF)on a graph $G$ with vertex set $V(G)$ is a function$f:V(G)longrightarrow {0,1,2,3}$ such that if $f(v)in{0,1}$ for a vertex $vin V(G)$ then $sum_{uin N[v]}f(u)geq3$,and the set $ {uin V(G)|f(u)=0}$ is independent. The weight ofan OIDIDF $f$ is the value $w(f)=sum_{vin V(G)}f(v)$. Theminimum weight of an OIDIDF on a graph $G$ is cal...