• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.63-70
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• 2015

In the absence of a polynomial time algorithm capable of obtaining the exact solutions to it, the domatic number problem (DNP) of dominating set (DS) has been regarded as NP-complete. This paper suggests polynomial-time complexity algorithm about DNP. In this paper, I select a vertex $v_i$ of the maximum degree ${\Delta}(G)$ as an element of a dominating set $D_i,i=1,2,{\cdots},k$, compute $D_{i+1}$ from a simplified graph of $V_{i+1}=V_i{\backslash}D_i$, and verify that $D_i$ is indeed a dominating set through $V{\backslash}D_i=N_G(D_i)$. When applied to 15 various graphs, the proposed algorithm has succeeded in bringing about exact solutions with polynomial-time complexity O(kn). Therefore, the proposed domatic number algorithm shows that the domatic number problem is in fact a P-problem.