The focus of this article is on three of the author’s open conjectures. The article itself surveys results relating to the conjectures and shows where the conjectures are known to hold.

A graph is outer-1-planar if it can be drawn in the plane so that all vertices are on the outer face and each edge is crossed at most once. In this paper, we completely determine the edge chromatic number of outer 1-planar graphs.

An edge-operation on a graph G is defined to be either the deletion of an existing edge or the addition of a nonexisting edge. Given a family of graphs G, the editing distance from G to G is the smallest number of edge-operations needed to modify G into a graph from G. In this paper, we fix a graph H and consider Forb(n,H), the set of all graphs on n vertices that have no induced copy of H. We ...

An r-edge coloring of a graph G is a mapping h : E(G) → [r], where h(e) is the color assigned to edge e ∈ E(G). An exact r-edge coloring is an r-edge coloring h such that there exists an e ∈ E(G) with h(e) = i for all i ∈ [r]. Let h be an edge coloring of G. We say G is rainbow if no two edges in G are assigned the same color by h. The anti-Ramsey number, AR(G,n), is the smallest integer r such...

The (r, d)-relaxed coloring game is a two-player game played on the vertex set of a graph G. We consider a natural analogue to this game on the edge set of G called the (r, d)-relaxed edge-coloring game. We consider this game on trees and more generally, on k-degenerate graphs. We show that if G is k-degenerate with (G) = , then the first player, Alice, has a winning strategy for this game with...

We consider lower bounds on the the vertex-distinguishing edge chromatic number of graphs and prove that these are compatible with a conjecture of Burris and Schelp [8]. We also find upper bounds on this number for certain regular graphs G of low degree and hence verify the conjecture for a reasonably large class of such graphs.

Given graphs G and H, we consider the problem of decomposing a properly edge-colored graph G into few parts consisting of rainbow copies of H and single edges. We establish a close relation to the previously studied problem of minimum H-decompositions, where an edge coloring does not matter and one is merely interested in decomposing graphs into copies of H and single edges.

We study weighted bipartite edge coloring problem, which is a generalization of two classical problems: bin packing and edge coloring. This problem has been inspired from the study of Clos networks in multirate switching environment in communication networks. In weighted bipartite edge coloring problem, we are given an edge-weighted bipartite multigraph G = (V,E) with weights w : E → [0, 1]. Th...

An edge-coloring of a graph G with consecutive integers c1, . . . , ct is called an interval t-coloring if all colors are used, and the colors of edges incident to any vertex of G are distinct and form an interval of integers. A graph G is interval colorable if it has an interval t-coloring for some positive integer t. The set of all interval colorable graphs is denoted by N. In 2004, Giaro and...