An edge dominating set of a graph G = (V,E) is a subset M ⊆ E of edges in the graph such that each edge in E −M is incident with at least one edge in M . In an instance of the parameterized edge dominating set problem we are given a graph G = (V,E) and an integer k and we are asked to decide whether G has an edge dominating set of size at most k. In this paper we show that the parameterized edg...

A dominating path in a graph is a path P such that every vertex outside P has a neighbor on P. A result of Broersma from 1988 implies that if G is an n-vertex k-connected graph and δ(G) > n−k k+2 − 1, then G contains a dominating path. We prove the following results. The lengths of dominating paths include all values from the shortest up to at least min{n − 1,2δ(G)}. For δ(G) > an, where a is a...

A subset of vertices D of a graph G is a dominating set for G if every vertex of G not in D is adjacent to one in D. A dominating set for G is a connected dominating set if it induces a connected subgraph of G. The connected domination number of G, denoted by γc(G), is the minimum cardinality of a connected dominating set. Graph G is said to be k−γc−critical if γc(G) = k but γc(G+e) < k for eac...

A Roman dominating function (RDF) on a digraph $D$ is a function $f: V(D)rightarrow {0,1,2}$ satisfying the condition that every vertex $v$ with $f(v)=0$ has an in-neighbor $u$ with $f(u)=2$. The weight of an RDF $f$ is the value $sum_{vin V(D)}f(v)$. The Roman domination number of a digraph $D$ is the minimum weight of an RDF on $D$. A set ${f_1,f_2,dots,f_d}$ of Roman dominating functions on ...

Rule k (k=1,2,3,...) is a well known family of approximation algorithms that can be used to find connected dominating sets in a graph. They were originally proposed by Dai, Li, and Wu as the basis for efficient routing methods for ad hoc wireless networks. In this paper we study the asymptotic performance of Rules 1 and 2 on random unit disk graphs formed from n random points in an `n × `n squa...

While efficient algorithms for finding minimal distance-k dominating sets exist, finding minimum such sets is NP-hard even for bipartite graphs. This paper presents a distributed algorithm to determine a minimum (connected) distance-k dominating set and a maximum distance-2k independent set of a tree T . It terminates in O(height(T )) rounds and uses O(log k) space. To the best of our knowledge...

The top-k dominating query returns k data objects which dominate the highest number of objects in a dataset. This query is an important tool for decision support since it provides data analysts an intuitive way for finding significant objects. In addition, it combines the advantages of top-k and skyline queries without sharing their disadvantages: (i) the output size can be controlled, (ii) no ...

We show that Edge Dominating Set, Hamiltonian Cycle, and Graph Coloring are W [1]-hard parameterized by clique-width. It was an open problem, explicitly mentioned in several papers, whether any of these problems is fixed parameter tractable when parameterized by the clique-width, that is, solvable in time g(k) · nO(1) on n-vertex graphs of clique-width k, where g is some function of k only. Our...

Let k be a positive integer. A vertex subset D of a graph G = (V,E) is a perfect k-dominating set of G if every vertex v of G, not in D, is adjacent to exactly k vertices of D. The minimum cardinality of a perfect k-dominating set of G is the perfect k-domination number γkp(G). In this paper, we generalize perfect domination to perfect k-domination, where many bounds of γkp(G) are obtained. We ...

Dai, Li, and Wu [11] [30] proposed Rule k, a localized approximation algorithm that attempts to find a small connected dominating set in a graph. In this paper we consider the “average case”performance of Rule k for the model of random unit disk graphs constructed from n random points in an `n × `n square. We show that if k ≥ 3 and `n = o(√n), then the expected size of the Rule k dominating set...