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 113-A
- Pages: 225-233
- Published: 31/01/2014
A graph \(G\) is called a fractional \((k, m)\)-deleted graph if any \(m\) edges are removed from \(G\), then the resulting graph admits a fractional \(k\)-factor. In this paper, we prove that for integers \(k \geq 2\), \(m \geq 0\), \(n \geq 8k + 4m – 7\), and \(\delta(G) \geq k + m\), if
\[|N_G(x) \cup N_G(y)| \geq \frac{n}{2}\]
for each pair of non-adjacent vertices \(x, y\) of \(G\), then \(G\) is a fractional \((k, m)\)-deleted graph. The bounds for neighborhood union condition, order, and the minimum degree of \(G\) are all sharp.
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 113-A
- Pages: 201-224
- Published: 31/01/2014
A \(c\)-partite or multipartite tournament is an orientation of a complete \(c\)-partite graph. A digraph \(D\) is cycle complementary if there exist two vertex-disjoint directed cycles \(C\) and \(C’\) such that \(V(D) = V(C) \cup V(C’)\). The global irregularity of a digraph \(D\) is defined by
\[i_g(D) = \max\{\max(d^+(x), d^-(x)) – \min(d^+(y),d^-(y)) \mid x,y \in V(D)\}.\]
If \(i_g(D) = 0\), then \(D\) is regular, and if \(i_g(D) \leq 1\), then \(D\) is almost regular. We prove in this paper that every almost regular \(c\)-partite tournament with \(c \geq 3\) such that all partite sets have the same cardinality \(r \geq 4\) contains two complementary directed cycles of length \(3\) and \(|V(D)| – 3\).
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 113-A
- Pages: 193-199
- Published: 31/01/2014
In this paper, we determine the spectrum for \(super-perfect\) OQSs. OQSs are \(G\)-designs in which \(G\) is an octagon quadrangle, i.e., the graph consisting of an \(8\)-cycle \((x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_8)\) with two additional chords: the edges \(\{x_1, x_4\}\) and \(\{x_5, x_6\}\).
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- Volume 113-A
- Pages: 187-191
- Published: 31/01/2014
In this paper, we give a four parameter theta function identity and prove it by using some properties of Jacobi’s theta functions and Jacobi’s fundamental formulae.
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 113-A
- Pages: 171-186
- Published: 31/01/2014
The order dimension is an invariant on partially ordered sets introduced by Dushnik and Miller in \(1941 [1]\). It is known that the computation of the order dimension of a partially ordered set in general is highly complex,with current algorithms relying on the minimal coloring of an associated hypergraph, see \([5]\). The aim of this work is to extend the family of posets whose order dimension is easily determined by a formula. We introduce an operation called layering. Finally, we provide the precise formulas for determining the order dimension of any given number of layers of Trotter’s generalized crowns.
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 113-A
- Pages: 161-169
- Published: 31/01/2014
In this paper, the regular endomorphisms of a split graph are investigated. We give a condition under which the regular endomorphisms of a split graph form a monoid.
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 113-A
- Pages: 147-160
- Published: 31/01/2014
The clique graph \(K(G)\) of a graph \(G\) is the intersection graph of all its (maximal) cliques, and \(G\) is said to be clique divergent if the order of its \(n\)-th iterated clique graph \(K^n(G)\) tends to infinity with \(n\). In general, deciding whether a graph is clique divergent is not known to be computable. We characterize the dynamical behavior under the clique operator of circulant graphs of the form \(C_n(a, b, c)\) with \(0 < a < b < c < \frac{n}{3}\). Such a circulant is clique divergent if and only if it is not clique-Helly. Owing to the Dragan-Szwarcfiter Criterion to decide clique-Hellyness, our result implies that the clique divergence of these circulants can be decided in polynomial time. Our main difficulty was the case \(C_n(1, 2, 4)\), which is clique divergent but no previously known technique could be used to prove it.
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- Volume 113-A
- Pages: 139-146
- Published: 31/01/2014
A total dominating set \(S\) of a graph \(G\) with no isolated vertex is a locating-total dominating set of \(G\) if for every pair of distinct vertices \(u\) and \(v\) in \(V – S\) are totally dominated by distinct subsets of the total dominating set. The minimum cardinality of a locating-total dominating set is the locating-total domination number. In this paper, we obtain new upper bounds for locating-total domination numbers of the Cartesian product of cycles \(C_m\) and \(C_n\), and prove that for any positive integer \(n \geq 3\), the locating-total domination numbers of the Cartesian product of cycles \(C_3\) and \(C_n\) is equal to \(n\) for \(n \equiv 0 \pmod{6}\) or \(n + 1\) otherwise.
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- Volume 113-A
- Pages: 129-137
- Published: 31/01/2014
A graph \(G\) is called a fractional \((g, f, m)\)-deleted graph if after deleting any \(m\) edges, then the resulting graph admits a fractional \((g, f)\)-factor. In this paper, we prove that if \(G\) is a graph of order \(n\), and if \(1 \leq g(x) \leq f(x) \leq 6\) for any \(x \in V(G)\), \(\delta(G) \geq \frac{b^2(i-1)}{a} ++2m\), \(n > \frac{(a+b)(i(a+b)+2m-2)}{a}\) and \(|N_G(x_1) \cup N_G(x_2) \cup \cdots \cup N_G(x_i)| \geq \frac{bn}{a+b} \), for any independent set \(\{x_1, x_2, \ldots,x_i\}\) of \(V(G)\), where \(i \geq 2\), then \(G\) is a fractional \((g, f, m)\)-deleted graph. The result is tight on the neighborhood union condition.
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- Volume 113-A
- Pages: 119-128
- Published: 31/01/2014
In this short paper, we introduce the second order linear recurrence relation of the \(AB\)-generalized Fibonacci sequence and give the explicit formulas for the sums of the positively and negatively subscripted terms of the \(AB\)-generalized Fibonacci sequence by matrix methods. This sum generalizes the one obtained earlier by Kilig in \([2]\).




