The atom-bond connectivity (ABC) index is a degree-based molecular structure descriptor that can be used for modelling thermodynamic properties of organic chemical compounds. Motivated by its applicable potential, a series of investigations have been carried out in the past several years. In this note we first consider graphs with given edge-connectivity that attain the maximum ABC index. In pa...

The question of which groups admit planar Cayley graphs goes back over 100 years, being settled for finite groups by Maschke in 1896. Since that time, various authors have studied infinite planar Cayley graphs which satisfy additional special conditions. We consider the question of which groups possess any planar Cayley graphs at all by categorizing such graphs according to their connectivity. ...

We present an expected polynomial time algorithm to generate an unlabeled connected cubic planar graph uniformly at random. We first consider rooted connected cubic planar graphs, i.e., we count connected cubic planar graphs up to isomorphisms that fix a certain directed edge. Based on decompositions along the connectivity structure, we derive recurrence formulas for the exact number of rooted ...

Graph matching is considered the recognition step in computer vision. Our work uses attributed relation graphs (ARG’s) for image representation and analysis, a structural description that we enhance with the complete and coherent spatial knowledge of the source image. In chapter 1 we reveal a trend where researchers are slowly incorporating more and more spatial knowledge into relational graphs...