a function $f:v(g)rightarrow {-1,0,1}$ is a {em minusdominating function} if for every vertex $vin v(g)$, $sum_{uinn[v]}f(u)ge 1$. a minus dominating function $f$ of $g$ is calleda {em global minus dominating function} if $f$ is also a minusdominating function of the complement $overline{g}$ of $g$. the{em global minus domination number} $gamma_{g}^-(g)$ of $g$ isdefined as $gamma_{g}^-(g)=min{...

The signed edge domination number of a graph is an edge variant of the signed domination number. The closed neighbourhood NG[e] of an edge e in a graph G is the set consisting of e and of all edges having a common end vertex with e. Let f be a mapping of the edge set E(G) of G into the set {−1, 1}. If ∑ x∈N [e] f(x) 1 for each e ∈ E(G), then f is called a signed edge dominating function on G. T...

Domination is a rapidly developing area of research in graph theory, and its various applications to ad hoc networks, distributed computing, social networks and web graphs partly explain the increased interest. This thesis focuses on domination theory, and the main aim of the study is to apply a probabilistic approach to obtain new upper bounds for various domination parameters. Chapters 2 and ...

Let G be a finite and simple graph with vertex set V (G), and let f : V (G) → {−1, 1} be a two-valued function. If ∑ x∈N[v] f (x) ≥ 1 for each v ∈ V (G), where N[v] is the closed neighborhood of v, then f is a signed dominating function on G. A set {f1, f2, . . . , fd} of signed dominating functions on Gwith the property that ∑d i=1 fi(x) ≤ 1 for each x ∈ V (G), is called a signed dominating fa...

The open neighborhood NG(e) of an edge e in a graph G is the set consisting of all edges having a common end-vertex with e and its closed neighborhood is NG[e] = NG(e) ∪ {e}. Let f be a function on E(G), the edge set of G, into the set {−1, 1}. If ∑x∈NG[e] f(x) ≥ 1 for at least a half of the edges e ∈ E(G), then f is called a signed edge majority dominating function of G. The minimum of the val...

Let G be a graph. A function f : V (G) → {−1, 1} is a signed kindependence function if the sum of its function values over any closed neighborhood is at most k − 1, where k ≥ 2. The signed k-independence number of G is the maximum weight of a signed k-independence function of G. Similarly, the signed total k-independence number of G is the maximum weight of a signed total k-independence functio...

Let D=(V(D),A(D)) be a finite, simple digraph and k positive integer. A function f:V(D)→{0,1,2,…,k+1} is called [k]-Roman dominating (for short, [k]-RDF) if f(AN−[v])≥|AN−(v)|+k for any vertex v∈V(D), where AN−(v)={u∈N−(v):f(u)≥1} AN−[v]=AN−(v)∪{v}. The weight of [k]-RDF f ω(f)=∑v∈V(D)f(v). minimum on D the domination number, denoted by γ[kR](D). For k=2 k=3, we call them double Roman number tr...

For a positive integer k, a total {k}-dominating function of a graph G without isolated vertices is a function f from the vertex set V (G) to the set {0, 1, 2, . . . , k} such that for any vertex v ∈ V (G), the condition ∑ u∈N(v) f(u) ≥ k is fulfilled, where N(v) is the open neighborhood of v. The weight of a total {k}-dominating function f is the value ω(f) = ∑ v∈V f(v). The total {k}-dominati...

Let Y be a subset of real numbers. A Y dominating function of a graph G = (V, E) is a function f : V → Y such that u∈NG[v] f(u) ≥ 1 for all vertices v ∈ V , where NG[v] = {v} ∪ {u|(u, v) ∈ E}. Let f(S) = u∈S f(u) for any subset S of V and let f(V ) be the weight of f . The Y -domination problem is to find a Y -dominating function of minimum weight for a graph. In this paper, we study the variat...

For every positive integer k, a set S of vertices in a graph G = (V;E) is a k- tuple dominating set of G if every vertex of V -S is adjacent to at least k vertices and every vertex of S is adjacent to at least k - 1 vertices in S. The minimum cardinality of a k-tuple dominating set of G is the k-tuple domination number of G. When k = 1, a k-tuple domination number is the well-studied domination...