let $g$ be a connected graph with vertex set $v(g)$‎. ‎the‎ ‎degree resistance distance of $g$ is defined as $d_r(g) = sum_{{u‎,‎v} subseteq v(g)} [d(u)+d(v)] r(u,v)$‎, ‎where $d(u)$ is the degree‎ ‎of vertex $u$‎, ‎and $r(u,v)$ denotes the resistance distance between‎ ‎$u$ and $v$‎. ‎in this paper‎, ‎we characterize $n$-vertex unicyclic‎ ‎graphs having minimum and second minimum degree resista...

A Steiner tree for a set S of vertices in a connected graph G is a connected subgraph of G with a smallest number of edges that contains S. The Steiner interval I (S) of S is the union of all the vertices of G that belong to some Steiner tree for S. If S = {u, v}, then I (S) = I [u, v] is called the interval between u and v and consists of all vertices that lie on some shortest u–v path in G. T...

For any fixed parameter k ≥ 1, a tree k–spanner of a graph G is a spanning tree T in G such that the distance between every pair of vertices in T is at most k times their distance in G. In this paper, we generalize on this very restrictive concept, and introduce Steiner tree k–spanners: We are given an input graph consisting of terminals and Steiner vertices, and we are now looking for a tree k...

A distance-hereditary graph is a connected graph in which every induced path is isometric, i.e., the distance of any two vertices in an induced path equals their distance in the graph. We present a linear time labeling algorithm for the minimum cardinality connected r-dominating set and Steiner tree problems on distance-hereditary graphs. q 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Networks 31: 177–182, 1998

We introduce the concept of a clique bitrade, which generalizes several known types of bitrades, including latin bitrades, Steiner T(k−1, k, v) bitrades, extended 1perfect bitrades. For a distance-regular graph, we show a one-to-one correspondence between the clique bitrades that meet the weight-distribution lower bound on the cardinality and the bipartite isometric subgraphs that are distance-...

In this paper we present a method for navigating a multirobot system through an environment while additionally maintaining a set of constraints. Our approach is based on graph structures that model movements and constraints separately, in order to cover different robots and a large class of possible constraints. Additionally, the partition of movement and constraint graph allows us to use known...

The Wiener index W (G) of a connected graph G is defined as W (G) = ∑ u,v∈V (G) dG(u, v) where dG(u, v) is the distance between the vertices u and v of G. For S ⊆ V (G), the Steiner distance d(S) of the vertices of S is the minimum size of a connected subgraph of G whose vertex set is S. The k-th Steiner Wiener index SWk(G) of G is defined as SWk(G) = ∑ S⊆V (G) |S|=k d(S). We establish expressi...

Let G be a connected graph and S ⊆ V (G). Then the Steiner distance of S, denoted by dG(S), is the smallest number of edges in a connected subgraph of G containing S. Such a subgraph is necessarily a tree called a Steiner tree for S. The Steiner interval for a set S of vertices in a graph, denoted by I (S) is the union of all vertices that belong to some Steiner tree for S. If S = {u, v}, then ...

Let G be a connected graph of order p and S a nonempty set of vertices of G. Then the Steiner distance d(S) of S is the minimum size of a connected subgraph of G whose vertex set contains S. If n is an integer, 2 ≤ n ≤ p, the Steiner n-diameter, diamn(G), of G is the maximum Steiner distance of any n-subset of vertices of G. We give a bound on diamn(G) for a graph G in terms of the order of G a...

In this papel; we present eficient parallel algorithms forjinding a minimum weighted connected dominating set, a minimum weighted Steiner tree for a distance-hereditary graph which take O(1og n) time using O(n+m) processors on a CRCW PRAM, where n and m are the number of vertices and edges of a given graph, respectively. We also find a maximum weighted clique of a distance-hereditary graph in O...