A proper edge coloring of G is r-acyclic if every cycle C contained in G is colored with at least min{vertical bar C vertical bar, r} colors. The r-acyclic chromatic index of a graph, denoted by a(r)'(G), is the m...
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A proper edge coloring of G is r-acyclic if every cycle C contained in G is colored with at least min{vertical bar C vertical bar, r} colors. The r-acyclic chromatic index of a graph, denoted by a(r)'(G), is the minimum number of colors required to produce an r-acyclic edge coloring. In this paper, we study 4-acyclic edge colorings by proving that a(4)' (G) <= 37 Delta(G) for every planar graph, a(4)' (G) <= max{2 Delta(G), 3 Delta(G) - 4} for every series-parallel graph and a(4)' (G) <= 2 Delta(G) for every outerplanar graph. In addition, we prove that every planar graph with maximum degree at least r and girth at least 5r + 1 has a(r)'(G) = Delta(G) for every r >= 4. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
This paper studies the following variations of arboricity of graphs. The vertex ( respectively, tree) arboricity of a graph G is the minimum number va( G) ( respectively, ta( G)) of subsets into which the vertices of ...
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This paper studies the following variations of arboricity of graphs. The vertex ( respectively, tree) arboricity of a graph G is the minimum number va( G) ( respectively, ta( G)) of subsets into which the vertices of G can be partitioned so that each subset induces a forest ( respectively, tree). This paper studies the vertex and the tree arboricities on various classes of graphs for exact values, algorithms, bounds, hamiltonicity and NP-completeness. The graphs investigated in this paper include block-cactus graphs, series-parallel graphs, cographs and planar graphs.
In this paper we study the dominant of the Steiner tree polytope. We introduce a new class of valid inequalities that generalizes the so-called odd hole, wheel, bipartite, anti-hole and Steiner partition inequalities ...
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In this paper we study the dominant of the Steiner tree polytope. We introduce a new class of valid inequalities that generalizes the so-called odd hole, wheel, bipartite, anti-hole and Steiner partition inequalities introduced by Chopra and Rao (Math. Programming 64 (1994) 209-229, 231-246), and we give sufficient conditions for these inequalities to define facets. We describe some procedures that permit to construct facets from known ones for the dominant of the Steiner tree polytope and the closely related Steiner connected subgraph polytope. Using these methods we give a counterexample to a conjecture of Chopra and Rao on the dominant of the Steiner tree polytope on 2-trees. We also describe the dominant of the Steiner tree polytope and the Steiner connected subgraph polytope on special classes of graphs. In particular, we show that if the underlying graph is series-parallel and the terminals satisfy certain conditions, then both polyhedra are given by the trivial inequalities and the Steiner partition inequalities. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
We give a geometric representation of free De Morgan bisemigroups,free commutative De Morgan bisemigroups, and free De Morgan bisemilattices by using labeled graphs.
We give a geometric representation of free De Morgan bisemigroups,free commutative De Morgan bisemigroups, and free De Morgan bisemilattices by using labeled graphs.
Braess's paradox exposes a counterintuitive phenomenon that when travelers selfishly choose their routes in a network, removing links can improve the overall network performance. Under the model of nonatomic selfi...
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Braess's paradox exposes a counterintuitive phenomenon that when travelers selfishly choose their routes in a network, removing links can improve the overall network performance. Under the model of nonatomic selfish routing, we characterize the topologies of k-commodity undirected and directed networks in which Braess's paradox never occurs. Our results strengthen Milchtaich's series-parallel characterization (Milchtaich, Games Econom. Behav. 57(2), 321-346 (2006)) for the single-commodity undirected case.
Assume that each vertex of a graph G is either a supply vertex or a demand vertex and is assigned a positive integer, called a supply or a demand. Each demand vertex can receive "power" from at most one supp...
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Assume that each vertex of a graph G is either a supply vertex or a demand vertex and is assigned a positive integer, called a supply or a demand. Each demand vertex can receive "power" from at most one supply vertex through edges in G. One thus wishes to partition G into connected components by deleting edges from G so that each component C has exactly one supply vertex whose supply is no less than the sum of demands of all demand vertices in C. If G does not have such a partition, one wishes to partition G into connected components so that each component C either has no supply vertex or has exactly one supply vertex whose supply is no less than the sum of demands in C, and wishes to maximize the sum of demands in all components with supply vertices. We deal with such a maximization problem, which is NP-hard even for trees and strongly NP-hard for general graphs. In this paper, we show that the problem can be solved in pseudo-polynomial time for series-parallel graphs and partial k-trees - that is, graphs with bounded tree-width. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
The minimum color-degree perfectb-matching problem (Col-BM) is a new extension of the perfectb-matching problem to edge-colored graphs. The objective of Col-BM is to minimize the maximum number of differently colored ...
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The minimum color-degree perfectb-matching problem (Col-BM) is a new extension of the perfectb-matching problem to edge-colored graphs. The objective of Col-BM is to minimize the maximum number of differently colored edges in a perfectb-matching that are incident to the same node. We show that Col-BM isNP-hard on bipartite graphs by a reduction from (3,B2)-Sat, and conclude that there exists no(2 - epsilon)-approximation algorithm unlessP=NP. However, we identify a class of two-colored complete bipartite graphs on which we can solve Col-BM in polynomial time. Furthermore, we use dynamic programming to devise polynomial-time algorithms solving Col-BM with a fixed number of colors on series-parallel graphs and simple graphs with bounded treewidth.
The optimum communication spanning tree problem is to locate a spanning tree which minimizes the sum of the lengths of the shortest routes between all pairs of vertices in a graph, weighted by traffic requirements. Al...
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The optimum communication spanning tree problem is to locate a spanning tree which minimizes the sum of the lengths of the shortest routes between all pairs of vertices in a graph, weighted by traffic requirements. Although NP-complete in general, this problem has an efficient solution for series-parallel graphs when all requirements are equal. This problem was introduced by Hu, who gave an efficient solution for the restricted case when the network is complete and the distances are equal.
In project management, three quantities are often used by project managers: the earliest starting date, the latest starting date and the float of tasks. These quantities are computed by the Program Evaluation and Revi...
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In project management, three quantities are often used by project managers: the earliest starting date, the latest starting date and the float of tasks. These quantities are computed by the Program Evaluation and Review Techniques/Critical Path Method (PERT/CPM) algorithm. When task durations are ill known, as is often the case at the beginning of a project, they can be modeled by means of intervals, representing the possible values of these task durations. With such a representation, the earliest starting dates, the latest starting dates and the floats are also intervals. The purpose of this paper is to give efficient algorithms for their computation. After recalling the classical PERT/CPM problem, we present several properties of the concerned quantities in the interval-valued case, showing that the standard criticality analysis collapses. We propose an efficient algorithm based on path enumeration to compute optimal intervals for latest starting times and floats in the general case, and a simpler polynomial algorithm in the case of series-parallel activity networks.
In this paper we discuss the line index and the minimum capacity, sum of the weights in a minimum cut, of weighted graphs, relationships between the line index and the minimum capacity, between the two kinds of minimu...
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In this paper we discuss the line index and the minimum capacity, sum of the weights in a minimum cut, of weighted graphs, relationships between the line index and the minimum capacity, between the two kinds of minimum capacities, and between graphs with only negative weights and graphs with both positive weights and negative weights. We provide linear algorithms for both the line index and the minimum capacity of series-parallel graphs. We discuss simplifications in computing the line index and the minimum capacity of weighted graphs. We show that the generalization of algorithm of Orlova and Dorfman, and Hadlock to mixed graphs is just one step. We also discuss the k-approximation of the minimum capacity. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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