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 114
- Pages: 185-191
- Published: 30/04/2014
A hypergraph \(\mathcal{H}\) is said to be \(p\)-Helly when every \(p\)-wise intersecting partial hypergraph \(\mathcal{H}’\) of \(H\) has nonempty total intersection. Such hypergraphs were characterized by Berge and Duchet in 1975, and since then they have appeared in various contexts, particularly for \(p=2\), where they are known as Helly hypergraphs. An interesting generalization due to Voloshin considers both the number of intersecting sets and their intersection sizes: a hypergraph \(\mathcal{H}\) is \((p,q,s)\)-Helly if every \(p\)-wise \(q\)-intersecting partial hypergraph \(\mathcal{H}’\) of \(H\) has total intersection of cardinality at least \(s\). This work proposes a characterization for \((p,q,s)\)-Helly hypergraphs, leading to an efficient algorithm for recognizing such hypergraphs when \(p\) and \(q\) are fixed parameters.
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 114
- Pages: 177-183
- Published: 30/04/2014
A \(k\)-chromatic graph \(G\) is \(uniquely\) \(k\)-\(colorable\) if \(G\) has only one \(k\)-coloring up to permutation of the colors. In this paper, we focus on uniquely \(k\)-colorable graphs on surfaces. Let \({F}^2\) be a closed surface, excluding the sphere, and let \(\chi({F}^2)\) denote the maximum chromatic number of graphs embeddable on \({F}^2\). We shall prove that the number of uniquely \(k\)-colorable graphs on \({F}^2\) is finite if \(k \geq 5\), and characterize uniquely \(\chi({F}^2)\)-colorable graphs on \({F}^2\). Moreover, we completely determine uniquely \(k\)-colorable graphs on the projective plane for \(k \geq 5\).
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 114
- Pages: 169-176
- Published: 30/04/2014
Given a distribution \(D\) of pebbles on the vertices of a graph \(G\), a pebbling move consists of removing two pebbles from a vertex and placing one on an adjacent vertex (the other is discarded). The pebbling number of a graph, denoted by \(f(G)\), is the minimal integer \(k\) such that any distribution of \(k\) pebbles on \(G\) allows one pebble to be moved to any specified vertex by a sequence of pebbling moves. In this paper, we calculate the pebbling number of the graph \(D_{n,C_m}\) and consider the relationship the pebbling number between the graph \(D_{n,C_m}\) and the subgraphs of \(D_{n,C_m}\).
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- Volume 114
- Pages: 161-168
- Published: 30/04/2014
Let \(G\) and \(H\) be two graphs. A proper vertex coloring of \(G\) is called a dynamic coloring if, for every vertex \(v\) with degree at least \(2\), the neighbors of \(v\) receive at least two different colors. The smallest integer \(k\) such that \(G\) has a dynamic coloring with \(k\) colors is denoted by \(\chi_2(G)\). We denote the Cartesian product of \(G\) and \(H\) by \(G \square H\). In this paper, we prove that if \(G\) and \(H\) are two graphs and \(\delta(G) \geq 2\), then \(\chi_2(G \square H) \leq \max(\chi_2(G), \chi(H))\). We show that for every two natural numbers \(m\) and \(n\), \(m, n \geq 2\), \(\chi_2(P_m \square P_n) = 4\). Additionally, among other results, it is shown that if \(3\mid mn\), then \(\chi_2(C_m \square C_n) = 3\), and otherwise \(\chi_2(C_m \square C_n) = 4\).
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- Volume 114
- Pages: 153-160
- Published: 30/04/2014
In \([1]\), Hosam Abdo and Darko Dimitrov introduced the total irregularity of a graph. For a graph \(G\), it is defined as
\[\text{irr}_t(G) =\frac{1}{2} \sum_{{u,v} \in V(G)} |d_G(u) – d_G(v)|,\]
where \(d_G(u)\) denotes the vertex degree of a vertex \(u \in V(G)\). In this paper, we introduce two transformations to study the total irregularity of unicyclic graphs and determine the graph with the maximal total irregularity among all unicyclic graphs with \(n\) vertices.
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- Volume 114
- Pages: 145-152
- Published: 30/04/2014
We consider a variation on the Tennis Ball Problem studied by Mallows-Shapiro and Merlini, \(et \;al\). The solution to the original problem is the well known Catalan numbers, while the variations discussed in this paper yield the Motzkin numbers and other related sequences. For this variation, we present a generating function for the sum of the labels on the balls.
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- Volume 114
- Pages: 129-143
- Published: 30/04/2014
A graph \(G\) of order \(n\) is called a tricyclic graph if \(G\) is connected and the number of edges of \(G\) is \(n + 2\). Let \(\mathcal{T}_n\) denote the set of all tricyclic graphs on \(n\) vertices. In this paper, we determine the first to nineteenth largest Laplacian spectral radii among all graphs in the class \(\mathcal{T}_n\) (for \(n \geq 11\)), together with the corresponding graphs.
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- Volume 114
- Pages: 111-128
- Published: 30/04/2014
The Hosoya index of a graph is defined as the total number of the matchings of the graph. In this paper, we determine the lower bounds for the Hosoya index of unicyclic graph with a given diameter. The corresponding extrenal graphs are characterized.
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- Volume 114
- Pages: 105-110
- Published: 30/04/2014
A subset \(S\) of vertices of a graph \(G\) is called a global connected dominating set if \(S\) is both a global dominating set and a connected dominating set. The global connected domination number, denoted by \(\gamma_{gc}(G)\), is the minimum cardinality of a global connected dominating set of \(G\). In this paper, sharp bounds for \(\gamma_{gc}\) are supplied, and all graphs attaining those bounds are characterized. We also characterize all graphs of order \(n\) with \(\gamma_{gc} = k\), where \(3 \leq k \leq n-1\). Exact values of this number for trees and cycles are presented as well.
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- Volume 114
- Pages: 97-103
- Published: 30/04/2014
Let \(\mathbb{F}_q^n\) denote the \(n\)-dimensional row vector space over the finite field \(\mathbb{F}_q\), where \(n \geq 2\). An \(l\)-partial linear map of \(\mathbb{F}_q^n\) is a pair \((V, f)\), where \(V\) is an \(l\)-dimensional subspace of \(\mathbb{F}_q^n\) and \(f: V \to \mathbb{F}_q^n\) is a linear map. Let \(\mathcal{L}\) be the set of all partial linear maps of \(\mathbb{F}_q^n\) containing \(1\). Ordered \(\mathcal{L}\) by ordinary and reverse inclusion, two families of finite posets are obtained. This paper proves that these posets are lattices, discusses their geometricity, and computes their characteristic polynomials.




