Utilitas Algorithmica (UA)
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Utilitas Algorithmica (UA) is a premier, open-access international journal dedicated to advancing algorithmic research and its applications. Launched to drive innovation in computer science, UA publishes high-impact theoretical and experimental papers addressing real-world computational challenges. The journal underscores the vital role of efficient algorithm design in navigating the growing complexity of modern applications. Spanning domains such as parallel computing, computational geometry, artificial intelligence, and data structures, UA is a leading venue for groundbreaking algorithmic studies.
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 135
- Pages: 83-92
- Published: 31/10/2017
In this study, by using Jacobsthal and Jacobsthal Lucas matrix sequences, we define \(k\)-Jacobsthal and \(k\)-Jacobsthal Lucas matrix sequences depending on one parameter \(k\). After that, by using two parameters \((s,t)\), we define \((s,t)\)-Jacobsthal and \((s,t)\)-Jacobsthal Lucas matrix sequences. And then, we establish combinatoric representations of all of these matrices.
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 135
- Pages: 71-81
- Published: 31/10/2017
A graph \(G\) is \(1\)-planar if it can be embedded in the plane \(\mathbb{R}^2\) so that each edge of \(G\) is crossed by at most one other edge. In this paper, we show that each \(1\)-planar graph of maximum degree \(\Delta\) at least \(7\) with neither intersecting triangles nor chordal \(5\)-cycles admits a proper edge coloring with \(\Delta\) colors.
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 135
- Pages: 51-69
- Published: 31/10/2017
Dirac showed that in a \((k-1)\)-connected graph there is a path through each \(k\) vertices. The path \(k\)-connectivity \(\pi_k(G)\) of a graph \(G\), which is a generalization of Dirac’s notion, was introduced by Hager in 1986. Recently, Mao introduced the concept of path \(k\)-edge-connectivity \(\omega_k(G)\) of a graph \(G\). Denote by \(G \circ H\) the lexicographic product of two graphs \(G\) and \(H\). In this paper, we prove that \(\omega_4(G \circ H) \geq \omega_4(G) |V(H)|\) for any two graphs \(G\) and \(H\). Moreover, the bound is sharp.
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 135
- Pages: 39-50
- Published: 31/10/2017
A graph \(G = (V(G), E(G))\) is even graceful and equivalently graceful, if there exists an injection \(f\) from the set of vertices \(V(G)\) to \(\{0, 1, 2, 3, 4, \ldots, 2|E(G)|\}\) such that when each edge \(uv\) is assigned the label \(|f(u) – f(v)|\), the resulting edge labels are \(2, 4, 6, \ldots, 2|E(G)|\). In this work, we use even graceful labeling to give a new proof for necessary and sufficient conditions for the gracefulness of the cycle graph. We extend this technique to odd graceful and super Fibonacci graceful labelings of cycle graphs via some number theoretic concept, called a balanced set of natural numbers.
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 135
- Pages: 29-38
- Published: 31/10/2017
A graph is \(1\)-planar if it can be drawn on the plane so that each edge is crossed by at most one other edge. In this paper, we prove that every \(1\)-planar graph without \(4\)-cycles or adjacent \(5\)-vertices is \(5\)-colorable.
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 135
- Pages: 17-28
- Published: 31/10/2017
In previous researches on classification problems, there are some similar results obtained between \(f\)-coloring and \(g_c\)-coloring. In this article, the author shows that there always are coincident classification results for a regular simple graph \(G\) when the \(f\)-core and the \(g_c\)-core of \(G\) are same and \(f(v) = g(v)\) for each vertex \(v\) in the \(f\)-core (the \(g_c\)-core) of \(G\). However, it is not always coincident for nonregular simple graphs under the same conditions. In addition, the author obtains some new results on the classification problem of \(f\)-colorings for regular graphs. Based on the coincident correlation mentioned above, new results on the classification problem of \(g_c\)-colorings for regular graphs are deduced.
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- Volume 135
- Pages: 3-15
- Published: 31/10/2017
The integrity of a graph \(G = (V, E)\) is defined as \(I(G) = \min\{|S| + m(G-S): S \subseteq V(G)\}\), where \(m(G-S)\) denotes the order of the largest component in the graph \(G-S\). This is a better parameter to measure the stability of a network, as it takes into account both the amount of work done to damage the network and how badly the network is damaged. Computationally, it belongs to the class of intractable problems known as NP-hard. In this paper, we develop a heuristic algorithm to determine the integrity of a graph. Extensive computational experience on \(88\) randomly generated graphs ranging from \(20\%\) to \(90\%\) densities and from \(100\) to \(200\) vertices has shown that the proposed algorithm is very effective.
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- Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing
- Volume 098
- Pages: 391-403
- Published: 31/08/2016
For a finite group \( G \), a bijection \( \theta: G \to G \) is a \({strong \;complete \;mapping}\) if the mappings \( g \mapsto g\theta(g) \) and \( g \mapsto g^{-1}\theta(g) \) are both bijections. A group is \({strongly \;admissible}\) if it admits strong complete mappings. Strong complete mappings have several combinatorial applications. There exists a Latin square orthogonal to both the multiplication table of a finite group \( G \) and its normal multiplication table if and only if \( G \) is strongly admissible. The problem of characterizing strongly admissible groups is far from settled. In this paper, we will update progress towards its resolution. In particular, we will present several infinite classes of strongly admissible dihedral and quaternion groups and determine all strongly admissible groups of order at most \(31\).
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- Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing
- Volume 098
- Pages: 375-390
- Published: 31/08/2016
The complete directed graph of order \(n\), denoted \({K}_n^*\), is the directed graph on \(n\) vertices that contains the arcs \((u,v)\) and \((v,u)\) for every pair of distinct vertices \(u\) and \(v\). For a given directed graph \(D\), the set of all \(n\) for which \({K}_n^*\) admits a \(D\)-decomposition is called the spectrum of \(D\). In this paper, we find the spectrum for each bipartite subgraph of \({K}_4^*\) with 5 or fewer arcs.
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- Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing
- Volume 098
- Pages: 351-374
- Published: 31/08/2016
A bipartite graph on \(n\) vertices, with \(n\) even, is called uniquely bi-pancyclic (UBPC) if it contains precisely one cycle of length \(2m\) for every \(2 \leq m \leq \frac{n}{2}\). In this note, using computer programs, we show that if \(32 \leq n \leq 56\), and \(n \neq 44\), then there are no UBPC graphs of order \(n\). We also present the six non-isomorphic UBPC graphs of order 44. This improves the recent results on UBPC graphs of order at most 30.




