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 129
- Pages: 139-156
- Published: 31/10/2016
Let \(G = (V, E)\) be a graph. An edge labeling \(f: E \to \mathbb{Z}_2\) induces a vertex labeling \(f^*: V \to \mathbb{Z}_2\) defined by \(f^*(v) = \sum_{uv \in E} f(uv) \pmod{2}\). For each \(i \in \mathbb{Z}_2\), define \(E_i(f) = |f^{-1}(i)|\) and \(V_i(f) = |(f^*)^{-1}(i)|\). We call \(f\) edge-friendly if \(|E_1(f) – E_0(f)| \leq 1\). The edge-friendly index \(I_f(G)\) is defined as \(V_1(f) – V_0(f)\), and the full edge-friendly index set \(FEFI(G)\) is defined as \(\{I_f(G): f \text{ is an edge-friendly labeling}\}\). Further, the edge-friendly index set \(EFI(G)\) is defined as \(\{|I_f(G)|: f \text{ is an edge-friendly labeling}\}\). In this paper, we study the full edge-friendly index set of the star \(K_{1,n}\), \(2\)-regular graph, wheel \(W_n\), and \(m\) copies of path \(mP_n\), \(m \geq 1\).
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 129
- Pages: 123-137
- Published: 31/10/2016
An acyclic total coloring is a proper total coloring of a graph \(G\) such that there are at least \(4\) colors on vertices and edges incident with a cycle of \(G\). The acyclic total chromatic number of \(G\), \(\chi”_a(G)\), is the least number of colors in an acyclic total coloring of \(G\). In this paper, we prove that for every plane graph \(G\) with maximum degree \(\Delta\) and girth \(g(G)\), \(\chi_a(G) = \Delta+1\) if (1) \(\Delta \geq 9\) and \(g(G) \geq 4\); (2) \(\Delta \geq 6\) and \(g(G) \geq 5\); (3) \(\Delta \geq 4\) and \(g(G) \geq 6\); (4) \(\Delta \geq 3\) and \(g(G) \geq 14\).
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- Volume 129
- Pages: 107-122
- Published: 31/10/2016
Codes in \(l_{p\gamma}\)-spaces, introduced by the author in [3], are a natural generalization of one-dimensional codes in \(RT\)-spaces [6] to block coding and have applications in different areas of combinatorial/discrete mathematics, e.g., in the theory of uniform distribution, experimental designs, cryptography, etc. In this paper, we introduce various types of weight enumerators in \(l_{p\gamma}\)-codes, viz., exact weight enumerator, complete weight enumerator, block weight enumerator, and \(\gamma\)-weight enumerator. We obtain the MacWilliams duality relation for the exact and complete weight enumerators of an \(l_{p\gamma}\)-code.
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- Volume 129
- Pages: 95-106
- Published: 31/10/2016
We introduce a theorem on bipartite graphs, and some theorems on chains of two and three complete graphs, considering when they are combination or non-combination graphs, present some families of combination graphs. We give a survey for trees of order \(\leq 10\), which are all combination graphs.
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- Volume 129
- Pages: 71-93
- Published: 31/10/2016
A set of vertices in a graph \(G\) without isolated vertices is a total dominating set (TDS) of \(G\) if every vertex of \(G\) is adjacent to some vertex in \(S\). The minimum cardinality of a TDS of \(G\) is the total domination number \(\gamma_t(G)\) of \(G\). In this paper, the total domination number of generalized \(n\)-graphs and \(m \times n\) ladder graphs is determined.
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- Volume 129
- Pages: 63-69
- Published: 31/10/2016
We identify a graph without proper cycles, which is comatching with a cycle,The result is then extended to certain general families of graphs with cyclomatic number \(1\), formed by attaching trees to cycles.
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- Volume 129
- Pages: 51-62
- Published: 31/10/2016
A vertex \(v \in V(G)\) is said to be a self vertex switching of \(G\) if \(G\) is isomorphic to \(G^v\), where \(G^v\) is the graph obtained from \(G\) by deleting all edges of \(G\) incident to \(v\) and adding all edges incident to \(v\) which are not in \(G\). In [6], the author characterized connected unicyclic graphs each with a self vertex switching. In this paper, we characterize disconnected unicyclic graphs each with a self vertex switching.
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- Volume 129
- Pages: 43-49
- Published: 31/10/2016
An \(f\)-coloring of a graph \(G\) is an edge-coloring of \(G\) such that each color appears at each vertex \(v \in V(G)\) at most \(f(v)\) times. A multi-wheel graph is a graph obtained from \(s\) cycles \(C_{n_1}, C_{n_2}, \ldots, C_{n_s}\) (\(s \geq 1\)) by adding a new vertex, say \(w\), and edges joining \(w\) to all the vertices of the \(s\) cycles. In this article, we solve a conjecture posed by Yu et al. in 2006 and prove that it is not always true. Furthermore, the classification problem of multi-wheel graphs on \(f\)-colorings is solved completely.
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- Volume 129
- Pages: 33-42
- Published: 31/10/2017
For a connected graph \(G = (V, E)\) of order at least two, a chord of a path \(P\) is an edge joining two non-adjacent vertices of \(P\). A path \(P\) is called a monophonic path if it is a chordless path. A longest \(x\)-\(y\) monophonic path is called an \(x\)-\(y\) detour monophonic path. A set \(S\) of vertices of \(G\) is a detour monophonic set of \(G\) if each vertex \(v\) of \(G\) lies on an \(x\)-\(y\) detour monophonic path for some \(x\) and \(y\) in \(S\). The minimum cardinality of a detour monophonic set of \(G\) is the detour monophonic number of \(G\) and is denoted by \(dm(G)\). For any two vertices \(u\) and \(v\) in \(G\), the monophonic distance \(dm(u,v)\) from \(u\) to \(v\) is defined as the length of a \(u\)-\(v\) detour monophonic path in \(G\). The monophonic eccentricity \(em(v)\) of a vertex \(v\) in \(G\) is the maximum monophonic distance from \(v\) to a vertex of \(G\). The monophonic radius \(rad_{m}(G)\) of \(G\) is the minimum monophonic eccentricity among the vertices of \(G\), while the monophonic diameter \(diam_{m}(G)\) of \(G\) is the maximum monophonic eccentricity among the vertices of \(G\). It is shown that for positive integers \(r\), \(d\), and \(n \geq 4\) with \(r < d\), there exists a connected graph \(G\) with \(rad_{m}(G) = r\), \(diam_{m}(G) = d\), and \(dm(G) = n\). Also, if \(p\), \(d\), and \(n\) are integers with \(2 \leq n \leq p-d+4\) and \(d \geq 3\), there is a connected graph \(G\) of order \(p\), monophonic diameter \(d\), and detour monophonic number \(n\). Further, we study how the detour monophonic number of a graph is affected by adding some pendant edges to the graph.
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- Volume 129
- Pages: 19-31
- Published: 31/10/2016
In this paper we introduce a new kind of two-parameters generalization of Pell numbers. We give two distinct graph interpretations and prove some identities for these numbers. Moreover we define matrix generators and derive the generalized Cassini formula for the introduced numbers.




