• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.329-336
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• 1998

The class of doubly chordal graphs is a subclass of chordal graphs and a superclass of strongly chordal graphs which arise in so many application areas. Many optimization problems like domination and Steiner tree are NP-complete on chordal graps but can be solved in polynomial time on doubly chordal graphs. The central to designing efficient algorithms for doulby chordal graphs is the concept of (canonical)doubly perfect elimination orderings. We present linear time algorithms to compute a (canonical) double perfect elimination ordering of a doubly chordal graph.