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Upper Domination : Towards a Dichotomy Through Boundary Properties

AbouEisha, Hassan ; Shahid, Hussain ; Lozin, Vadim ; Monnot, Jérôme ; Ries, Bernard ; Zamaraev, Viktor

In: Algorithmica, 2018, vol. 80, no. 10, p. 2799-2817

Anupper dominating set in a graph is a minimal dominating set of maximum cardinality. The problem of finding an upper dominating set is generally NP-hard.We study the complexity of this problem in finitely defined classes of graphs and conjecture that the problem admits a complexity dichotomy in this family. A helpful tool to study the complexity of an algorithmic problem is the notion of...

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On star and biclique edge-colorings

Dantas, Simone ; Groshaus, Marina ; Guedes , André ; C.S. Machado, Raphael ; Ries, Bernard ; Sasaki, Diana

In: International Transactions in Operational Research, 2017, vol. 24, p. 339-346

A biclique of G is a maximal set of vertices that induces a complete bipartite subgraph Kp,q of G with at least one edge, and a star of a graph G is a maximal set of vertices that induces a complete bipartite graph K1,q. A biclique (resp. star) edge-coloring is a coloring of the edges of a graph with no monochromatic bicliques (resp. stars). We prove that the problem of determining whether a...