We present a polynomial time heuristic algorithm for the minimum dominating set problem. The algorithm can readily be used for solving the minimum α-all-neighbor dominating set problem and the minimum set cover problem. We apply the algorithm in heuristic solving the minimum k-center problem in polynomial time. Using a standard set of 40 test problems we experimentally show that our k-center al...

If, for a subset S of Z, we compare the conditions of being parametrizable (a) by a single k-tuple of polynomials with integer coefficients, (b) by a single k-tuple of integer-valued polynomials and (c) by finitely many k-tuples of polynomials with integer coefficients (variables ranging through the integers in each case), then a ⇒ b (obviously), b ⇒ c, and neither implication is reversible. We...

In this paper, we consider the dominance properties of the set of the pignistic k-additive belief functions. Then, given k, we conjecture the shape of the polytope of all the k-additive belief functions dominating a given belief function, starting from an analogy with the case of dominating probability measures. Under such conjecture, we compute the analytical form of the barycenter of the poly...

Using connected dominating set (CDS) to serve as a virtual backbone in a wireless networks can save energy and reduce interference. Since nodes may fail due to accidental damage or energy depletion, it is desirable that the virtual backbone has some fault-tolerance. A k-connected m-fold dominating set ((k,m)-CDS) of a graph G is a node set D such that every node in V \ D has at least m neighbor...

The in-neighborhood, I(v), of a vertex v in a digraph D=(V, A) is v together with the set of all vertices sending an arc to v, i.e., vertices u such that (u, v) # A. A subset of V is called dominating if it meets I(v) for every v # V. (To avoid confusion, it must be noted that some authors require in the definition meeting every out-neighborhood.) A set of vertices is called independent if no t...

We investigate in this paper the set of kadditive capacities dominating a given capacity, which we call the k-additive core. We study its structure through achievable families, which play the role of maximal chains in the classical case (k = 1), and show that associated capacities are elements (possibly a vertex) of the k-additive core when the capacity is (k+1)-monotone. As a particular case, ...

An outer-connected dominating set for an arbitrary graph G is a set D̃ ⊆ V such that D̃ is a dominating set and the induced subgraph G[V \ D̃] be connected. In this paper, we focus on the outerconnected domination number of the product of graphs. We investigate the existence of outer-connected dominating set in lexicographic product and Corona of two arbitrary graphs, and we present upper bounds f...

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...

While efficient algorithms for finding minimal distance-k dominating sets exist, finding minimum such sets is NP-hard even for bipartite graphs. This paper presents a distributed algorithm to determine a minimum (connected) distance-k dominating set and a maximum distance-2k independent set of a tree T . It terminates in O(height(T )) rounds and uses O(log k) space. To the best of our knowledge...