let be a set and let be the set of subsets of . the pair in which is a collection of elements of (blocks) is called a design if every element of appears in , times. is called a symmetric design if . in a symmetric design, each element of appears times in blocks of . a mapping between two designs and is an isomorphism if is a one-to-one correspondence and . every isomorphism of a design, , to it...

The degree set of a graph is the set of its degrees. Kapoor et al. [Degree sets for graphs, Fund. Math. 95 (1977) 189-194] proved that for every set of positive integers, there exists a graph of diameter at most two and radius one with that degree set. Furthermore, the minimum order of such a graph is determined. A graph is 2-self- centered if its radius and diameter are two. In this paper for ...

A permutation with no fixed points is called a derangement.The subset $mathcal{D}$ of a permutation group is derangement if all elements of $mathcal{D}$ are derangement.Let $G$ be a permutation group, a derangementgraph is one with vertex set $G$ and derangement set $mathcal{D}$ as connecting set. In this paper, we determine the spectrum of derangement graphs of order a product of three primes.

in this paper, we investigate the concept of topological stationary for locally compact semigroups. in [4], t. mitchell proved that a semigroup s is right stationary if and only if m(s) has a left invariant mean. in this case, the set of values ?(f) where ? runs over all left invariant means on m(s) coincides with the set of constants in the weak* closed convex hull of right translates of f. th...

In security games, the solution concept commonly used is that of a Stackelberg equilibrium where the defender gets to commit to a mixed strategy. The motivation for this is that the attacker can repeatedly observe the defender’s actions and learn her distribution over actions, before acting himself. If the actions were not observable, Nash (or perhaps correlated) equilibrium would arguably be a...

Research on heuristic functions is all about estimating the length (or cost) of solution paths. But what if there is no such path? Many known heuristics have the ability to detect (some) unsolvable states, but that ability has always been treated as a by-product. No attempt has been made to design heuristics specifically for that purpose, where there is no need to preserve distances. As a case ...

A natural way to benefit from distribution is via asynchronous invocations to methods or services. Upon invocation, a request is enqueued at the destination side and the caller can continue its execution. But a question remains: “what if one wants to manipulate the result of an asynchronous invocation?” First-class futures provide a transparent and easy-to-program answer: a future acts as the p...

Let G be a group. A subset X of G is a set of pairwise noncommuting elements if xy ̸= yx for any two distinct elements x and y in X. If |X| ≥ |Y | for any other set of pairwise non-commuting elements Y in G, then X is said to be a maximal subset of pairwise non-commuting elements. In this paper we determine the cardinality of a maximal subset of pairwise non-commuting elements in any non-abelian...

Let $G$ be a finite group and $pi(G)$ be the set of all the prime‎ ‎divisors of $|G|$‎. ‎The prime graph of $G$ is a simple graph‎ ‎$Gamma(G)$ whose vertex set is $pi(G)$ and two distinct vertices‎ ‎$p$ and $q$ are joined by an edge if and only if $G$ has an‎ ‎element of order $pq$‎, ‎and in this case we will write $psim q$‎. ‎The degree of $p$ is the number of vertices adjacent to $p$ and is‎ ...