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Exact Algorithms for Finding the Minimum Independent Dominating Set in Graphs

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In this paper, we consider the Minimum Independent Dominating Set problem and develop exact exponential algorithms that break the trivial O(2|V |) bound. A simple \(O^{*}({\sqrt{3}}^{|V|})\) time algorithm is developed to solve this problem on general graphs. For sparse graphs, e.g. graphs with degree bounded by 3 and 4, we show that a few new branching techniques can be applied to these graphs and the resulting algorithms have time complexities O *(20.465|V |) and O *(20.620|V |), respectively. All our algorithms only need polynomial space.

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Liu, C., Song, Y. (2006). Exact Algorithms for Finding the Minimum Independent Dominating Set in Graphs. In: Asano, T. (eds) Algorithms and Computation. ISAAC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4288. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11940128_45

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