• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.18 no.9
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• pp.121-129
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• 2013

This paper proposes a linear-time algorithm that has been designed to obtain an accurate solution for Dominating Set (DS) problem, which is known to be NP-complete due to the deficiency of polynomial-time algorithms that successfully derive an accurate solution to it. The proposed algorithm does so by repeatedly assigning vertex v with maximum degree ${\Delta}(G)$among vertices adjacent to the vertex v with minimum degree ${\delta}(G)$ to Minimum Independent DS (MIDS) as its element and removing all the incident edges until no edges remain in the graph. This algorithm finally transforms MIDS into Minimum DS (MDS) and again into Minimum Connected DS (MCDS) so as to obtain the accurate solution to all DS-related problems. When applied to ten different graphs, it has successfully obtained accurate solutions with linear time complexity O(n). It has therefore proven that Dominating Set problem is rather a P-problem.

• 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.