16379968
On Structure of Some Plane Graphs with Application to Choosability
A graph G=(V, E) is (x, y)-choosable for integers xy?1 if for any given family {A(v)?v?V} of sets A(v) of cardinality x, there exists a collection {B(v)?v?V} of subsets B(v)?A(v) of cardinality y such that B(u)?B(v)=? whenever uv?E(G). In this paper, structures of some plane graphs, including plane graphs with minimum degree 4, are studied. Using these results, we may show that if G is free of k-cycles for some k?{3, 4, 5, 6}, or if any two triangles in G have distance at least 2, then G is (4m, m)-choosable for all nonnegative integers m. When m=1, (4m, m)-choosable is simply 4-choosable. So these conditions are also sufficient for a plane graph to be 4-choosable.
30641096
On the fixed edge of planar graphs with minimum degree five
Abstract An edge e of a finite and simple graph G is called a fixed edge of G if G - e + e ′ ≅ G implies e ′ = e . In this paper, we show that planar graphs with minimum degree 5 contain fixed edges, from which we prove that a class of planar graphs with minimum degree one is edge reconstructible.
7708894
Decomposing toroidal graphs into circuits and edges
Erdos et al. (Canad. J. Math. 18 (1966) 106-112) conjecture that there exists a constant d"c"e such that every simple graph on n vertices can be decomposed into at most d"c"en circuits and edges. We consider toroidal graphs, where the graphs can be embedded on the torus, and give a polynomial time algorithm to decompose the edge set of an even toroidal graph on n vertices into at most (n+3)/2 circuits. As a corollary, we get a polynomial time algorithm to decompose the edge set of a toroidal graph (not necessarily even) on n vertices into at most 3(n-1)/2 circuits and edges. This settles the conjecture for toroidal graphs.
30431957
On endo-homology of complexes of graphs
Abstract Let L be a subcomplex of a complex K . If the homomorphism from inclusion i ∗ :H q (L)→H q (K) is an isomorphism for all q ⩾ 0, then we say that L and K are endo-homologous. The clique complex of a graph G , denoted by C ( G ), is an abstract complex whose simplices are the cliques of G . The present paper is a generalization of Ivashchenko (1994) along several directions. For a graph G and a given subgraph F of G , some necessary and sufficient conditions for C ( G ) to be endo-homologous to C ( F ) are given. Similar theorems hold also for the independence complex I ( G ) of G , where I ( G ) − C ( G c ), the clique complex of the complement of G .
37612124
Minimally circular-imperfect graphs with a major vertex
In this note, we characterize the minimally circular-imperfect graphs that have a major vertex.
24660543
A note on the lower bounds of signed domination number of a graph
Abstract Let G = (V, E) be a graph. For a function f : V → {−1, 1}, the weight of f is w(f) = Σv ∈ V f(v). For a vertex v in V, we define f[v] = Σu∈N[v] f(u). A signed dominating function of G is a function f : V → {−1, 1} such that f[v] ⩾ 1 for all v ∈ V. The signed domination number γs(G) of G is the minimum weight of a signed dominating function on G. A signed dominating function of a weight γs(G) we call a γs-function of G. In this paper, we study the signed domination problem of general graph, and obtain some lower bounds of the signed domination number of a graph, and show that these lower bounds are sharp, and extend a result in Dunbar et al. (1995).
5196479
Odd Wheels in Graphs
For k?1 the odd wheel of 2k+1 spokes, denoted by W2k+1, is the graph obtained from a cycle of length 2k+1 by adding a new vertex and joining it to all vertices of the cycle. In this paper it is shown that if a graph G of order n with minimum degree greater than 7n/12 is at least 4-chromatic then G contains an odd wheel with at most 5 spokes.
34666787
Applying Agent into Web Testing and Evolution
Automatic Web testing and evolution is an effective method to ensure the quality of Web applications. In this paper, we apply Agent into this area, i.e. firstly, we explain the necessity and feasibility, and also give the general description of our method; then, we apply Agent into the Web performance testing, Web regression testing and Web usability evolution; conclusion remarks are given at last.
31739418
Geometric Algorithms for Density-based Data Clustering
Data clustering is a fundamental problem arising in many practical applications. In this paper, we present new geometric approximation and exact algorithms for the density-based data clustering problem in d-dimensional space ℝd (for any constant integer d ≥ 2). Previously known algorithms for this problem are efficient only when the specified range around each input point, called the δ-neighborhood, contains on average a constant number of input points. Different distributions of the input data points have significant impact on the efficiency of these algorithms. In the worst case when the data points are highly clustered, these algorithms run in quadratic time, although such situations might not occur very frequently on real data. By using computational geometry techniques, we develop faster approximation and exact algorithms for the density-based data clustering problem in ℝd. In particular, our approximation algorithm based on the ∊-fuzzy distance function takes O(n log n) time for any given fixed value ∊>0, and our exact algorithms take sub-quadratic time. The running times and output quality of our algorithms do not depend on any particular data distribution. We believe that our fast approximation algorithm is of considerable practical importance, while our sub-quadratic exact algorithms are more of theoretical interest. We implemented our approximation algorithm and the experimental results show that our approximation algorithm is efficient on arbitrary input point sets.
8227025
A Browser Compatibility Testing Method Based on Combinatorial Testing
For ensuring the displaying effects of Web applications, it is important to perform compatibility testing for browsers under the different configurations and it is a hard task to test all. So this paper focused on the improvements for browser compatibility testing. Firstly, we introduced the related work. Then we analysed the functional speciality of the current popular browsers, and provided the preconditions to simplify problems. Next we gave an instance and brought forward the single factor covering method and the pair-wise covering design to gain testing suits. Finally, we introduced the assistant tools we have developed and the future work.