You are here

FINDING DUD VERTICES IN DEFENSIVE ALLIANCES AND SECURE SETS USING COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS

Download pdf | Full Screen View

Date Issued:
2011
Abstract/Description:
Defensive alliances are a way of using graphs to model the defense of resources (people, buildings, countries, etc.) against attacks where the number of potential attackers against each resource is known. The initial study of defensive alliances focused on questions of minimal defensive alliances in a graph and the minimum possible size of a defensive alliance in a graph, but in order to apply defensive alliances in modeling real-world situations, additional considerations are important. In particular, since each vertex in a defensive alliance represents some real-world object that has a cost associated with remaining in the defensive alliance, it is important to consider the value each vertex adds to the defensive alliance. In this thesis we consider a method of assessing the efficiency of a defensive alliance, including the special case of secure sets.
Title: FINDING DUD VERTICES IN DEFENSIVE ALLIANCES AND SECURE SETS USING COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS.
42 views
18 downloads
Name(s): Worley, George, Author
Zhao, Yue, Committee Chair
University of Central Florida, Degree Grantor
Type of Resource: text
Date Issued: 2011
Publisher: University of Central Florida
Language(s): English
Abstract/Description: Defensive alliances are a way of using graphs to model the defense of resources (people, buildings, countries, etc.) against attacks where the number of potential attackers against each resource is known. The initial study of defensive alliances focused on questions of minimal defensive alliances in a graph and the minimum possible size of a defensive alliance in a graph, but in order to apply defensive alliances in modeling real-world situations, additional considerations are important. In particular, since each vertex in a defensive alliance represents some real-world object that has a cost associated with remaining in the defensive alliance, it is important to consider the value each vertex adds to the defensive alliance. In this thesis we consider a method of assessing the efficiency of a defensive alliance, including the special case of secure sets.
Identifier: CFE0004010 (IID), ucf:49166 (fedora)
Note(s): 2011-08-01
M.S.
Sciences, Department of Mathematics
Masters
This record was generated from author submitted information.
Subject(s): graph theory
defensive alliances
secure sets
dud vertices
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0004010
Restrictions on Access: public
Host Institution: UCF

In Collections