The bottleneck independent domination on the classes of bipartite graphs and block graphs

  • Authors:
  • William Chung-Kung Yen

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Graphic Communications and Technology, Shih Hsin University, Taipei 116, Taiwan, ROC

  • Venue:
  • Information Sciences—Informatics and Computer Science: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Let G(V,E,W) denote a graph with vertex-set V and edge-set E, and each vertex v is associated with a cost W(v). For any set V' ⊆ V, the bottleneck cost of V' is defined as max{W(x)|x ∈ V'}. This paper considers the bottleneck independent dominating set problem (the BIDS problem) which determines an independent dominating set of G such that its bottleneck cost is minimized.This paper studies the problem on the classes of bipartite graphs and block graphs. This paper first proves that the problem is NP-hard on chordal-bipartite graphs. Second, a linear-time algorithm on convex-bipartite graphs is proposed. Next, a linear-time algorithm on trees is designed. Then, we generalize the algorithmic result to block graphs. All algorithms are designed by the dynamic programming strategy.