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Abstract: The paper is devoted to demonstrating a randomized algorithm for determining a dominating set in a given graph having a maximum degree of five. The algorithm follows the Las Vegas technique. Furthermore, the concept of a 2-separated collection of subsets of vertices in graphs is used. The suggested algorithm is based on a condition of the upper bound of the cardinality of a local dominating set. If the condition is not satisfied, then the algorithm halts with an appropriate message. Otherwise, the algorithm determines the dominating set. The given algorithm is considered a polynomial-time approximation one. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: This paper revisits the ‘branchwidth territories’ of Kloks, Kratochvíl and Müller [T. Kloks, J. Kratochvíl, H. Müller, New branchwidth territories, in: 16th Ann. Symp. on Theoretical Aspect of Computer Science, STACS, in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 1563, 1999, pp. 173–183] to provide a simpler proof, and a faster algorithm for computing the branchwidth of an interval graph. We also generalize the algorithm to the class of chordal graphs, albeit at the expense of exponential running time. Compliance with the ternary constraint of the branchwidth definition is facilitated by a simple new tool called -troikas: three sets of size at most each are a -troika of set , if any two have union . We give a straightforward algorithm, computing branchwidth for an interval graph on edges, vertices and maximal cliques. We also prove a conjecture of Mazoit [F. Mazoit, A general scheme for deciding the branchwidth, Technical Report RR2004-34, LIP — École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 2004. http://www.ens-lyon.fr/LIP/Pub/Rapports/RR/RR2004/RR2004-34.pdf], by showing that branchwidth can be computed in polynomial time for a chordal graph given with a clique tree having a polynomial number of subtrees. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]