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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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Dominating induced matchings in graphs containing no long claw

Hertz, Alain ; Lozin, Vadim ; Ries, Bernard ; Zamaraev, Viktor ; de Werra, Dominique

In: Journal of Graph Theory, 2017, vol. 88, no. 1, p. 18-39

An induced matching 𝑀 in a graph 𝐺 is dominating if every edge not in 𝑀 shares exactly one vertex with an edge in 𝑀. The DOMINATING INDUCED MATCHING problem (also known as EFFICIENT EDGE DOMINATION) asks whether a graph 𝐺 contains a dominating induced matching. This problem is generally NP-complete, but polynomial-time solvable for graphs with some special properties. In...