Distance-hereditary graphs are graphs in which every two vertices have the same distance in every connected induced subgraph containing them. This paper studies distance-hereditary graphs from an algorithmic viewpoint. In particular, we present linear-time algorithms for finding a minimum weighted connected dominating set and a minimum vertex-weighted Steiner tree in a distance-hereditary graph...

A set D ⊆ V of vertices is said to be a (connected) distance k-dominating set of G if the distance between each vertex u ∈ V − D and D is at most k (and D induces a connected graph in G). The minimum cardinality of a (connected) distance k-dominating set in G is the (connected) distance k-domination number of G, denoted by γk(G) (γ c k (G), respectively). The set D is defined to be a total k-do...